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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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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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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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
