Victor Borge Quotes
The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)
