Joel Kinnaman Quotes
When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.
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I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.
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When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.
