Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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You don't want to just exist, you want to get the most out of life.
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I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.
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When the Kiwis ran onto the field we could see the poor bastards were shitting themselves.
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With a recent University of Rochester study concluding that the total effect of Sarbanes-Oxley has reduced the stock value of American companies by a staggering $1.4 trillion dollars, it is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.
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Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
