Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.
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Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
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Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.
