Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes
When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.
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People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
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Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.
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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.
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When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
