Bjork Quotes
My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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My first album didn't come out until I was 27, which in pop years is late, you know. But when it came time to arrange it, I became a kid in a toy shop. I had a harp and a saxophone quartet and a symphony orchestra. I went berserk for a time.
