David Lagercrantz Quotes
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.
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You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.
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Oscar Williams’s new book is pleasanter and a little quieter than his old, which gave the impression of having been written on a typewriter by a typewriter.
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I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.
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Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.
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I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.
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Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.
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I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.
