Joel Kinnaman Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
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The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
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Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I put up some great numbers.
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I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Garry Kasparov -
The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.
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To act is to rest.
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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
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Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.
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Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.
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A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.
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I have this thing for British women. I love Judi Dench. I love Helen Mirren. I love these women, and I definitely do have big girl crushes on them.
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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
