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.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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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.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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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.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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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.
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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.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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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.
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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.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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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.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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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.
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It's as if Brian de Palma were saying, 'What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?'
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When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.
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I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
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You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.
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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
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Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.
