Knut Hamsun Quotes
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I love action movies.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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I think penguins are cute.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.
