Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.
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There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.
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I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.
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For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.
