Jens Stoltenberg Quotes
We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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I love my sleep.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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The U.S.-E.U. partnership is indispensable to ensuring a Europe whole, free, and at peace.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.
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Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
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We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.
