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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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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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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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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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.
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Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.
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I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
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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.
