Knut Hamsun Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.
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The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.
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I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
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I find it remarkable. It's surreal for me that I've gotten to work with so many people who are not only great filmmakers but whose films have had such a direct effect on me.
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For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
