Jens Stoltenberg Quotes
The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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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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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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The devil made me do it.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I have a Baldwin in my L.A. apartment, a Steinway in my New York apartment, and a Kawai plexiglass grand piano in storage for shows. I still play for two or three hours every day.
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I almost sabotaged my career. 'The Fast and the Furious' didn't let me, and I'm grateful now. That franchise gave me the opportunity.
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There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.
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The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
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The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.
