Jens Voigt Quotes
It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.'
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.
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I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.
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I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
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It is the passion inside me that means I keep going. I love what I do, and I think I am lucky to do it. When I am riding a quiet country road, I hear the birds singing and think, 'I am in my office now.'
