Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.
Quotes to Explore
-
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
-
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
-
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
-
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
-
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
-
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
-
We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
-
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
-
It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
-
To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
-
Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
-
If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
-
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
-
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
-
When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
-
Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
-
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
-
I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.
-
I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.
-
I really liked Priyanka Chopra in 'Barfi!'
-
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
-
I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.
-
Remind me of the place. The wind breathing through the trees and the sound of coconuts dropping on the mud. Ta-dup ta dup. The hairy mangrove crabs and the turtles. The evening sky looking like a big mash up rainbow with all these colors leaking down on the sea. The fresh smell of fish and sand in the mornings. Cascadura jumping up from the ponds like living clumps of mud. Dew skating down from the big dasheen leaves as if they playing with the sunlight. A horsewhip snake slipping down a guava branch as smooth as flowing water. Cassava pone and seamoss drinks.
-
Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.
