Fridtjof Nansen Quotes
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
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Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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All men are born equally free.
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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
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Your problem is your role models were models.
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The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
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Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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I've always been fascinated with how transportation systems work and how cities are designed.
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I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.
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I would never want to force you to do something you don't want to do, I don't ever want to take something from you that you don't want to give me.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
