Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
I've seen many of those brand collaborations where, basically, the only point is sticking on a Gucci sticker. That degrades good brands.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.
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I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.
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I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.
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Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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I've seen many of those brand collaborations where, basically, the only point is sticking on a Gucci sticker. That degrades good brands.
