Bjork Quotes
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.
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I love playing sport.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
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When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.
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Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
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Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.
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I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'
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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
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In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.
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I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
