Knut Hamsun Quotes
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
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Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science.
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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
