Max von Sydow Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.
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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
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When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.
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Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.
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I tell my graduate students at Bard College, ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business, individuals build solutions within the current system… Sustainable business asks, ‘How would nature do this?’
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I owe Mr. Bergman so much.
