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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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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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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Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
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If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
