Fridtjof Nansen Quotes

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Fridtjof Nansen

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• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
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• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
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• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • May

• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Vision
  • United States
  • Truck

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
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  • Guy

• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Up
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  • Had

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
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• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• Parenting is tough.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Tough
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• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • You
  • Brain
  • Give

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
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• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
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• I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Year
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  • Shell

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• ...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Times
  • Adapt
  • Behooves

• I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.

  

  Geoff Stults
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Why
  • Way

• All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Problems

• Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Hope
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• It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

  

  Fridtjof Nansen
  • God
  • Church
  • Skiing