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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My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.
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The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.
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An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
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I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
