Karen Blixen Quotes
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I keep hearing this expletive thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people.
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Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
