Fredrik Bajer Quotes
Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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There are two ways to approach the market. You can guess which direction prices will go in next, or you can figure out what businesses and their securities are really worth.
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In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.
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Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
