Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Quotes
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.
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The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
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The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
