Jonas Gahr Store Quotes
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Women are sacred.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.
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We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
