Georg Brandes Quotes
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
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I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.
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If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.
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The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
