Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
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Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.
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For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
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We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
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Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
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It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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In the 1960s, my father chose to introduce Italian-style clothing into a world that was filled with boxy Brooks Brothers suits. So if you were dressing in his clothes in New York or California, you were breaking a rule. And my mother, Risha, who is still living, has always been an activist. I don't think my mom has met a cause she doesn't like.
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It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
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The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.
