Jo Nesbo Quotes
The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
