Johanna Siguroardottir Quotes
Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
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We have always said that over the medium and long term, we will disinvest some part of our holding in our major subsidiary companies, and life insurance is our largest subsidiary company.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.
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Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.
