Fredrik Bajer Quotes
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
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If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.
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In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.
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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
