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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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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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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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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Bells are musics laughter.
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I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
