Max von Sydow Quotes
Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
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Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.
