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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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
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My first job ever, I was 14 years old - I was working at this mom-and-pop video store, and they basically paid me by allowing me to take home as many movies as I wanted, and that's how I started watching all the classics and really getting into it.
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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.
