Karen Blixen Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.
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Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.
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People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
