Magnus Scheving Quotes
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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Every morning during certain seasons of the year, the thrushes and blackbirds on all the lawns throughout the country draw out of their holes an astonishing number of worms; and this they could not do, unless they lay close to the surface.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
