Fridtjof Nansen Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
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Take risks and try new things.
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
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It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
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I have no illusions, but I think he is extraordinarily intelligent and has a very clear assessment of the Middle East
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I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
