Victor Borge Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
