Petter Stordalen Quotes
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
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There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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I collect movies, I still buy records constantly. I collect musical instruments and most of my time I spend making music, it's pretty much what I do 90% of the time I'm home. Aside from just normal stuff, I walk the dog, I hang out with my girlfriend, get dinner. Pretty mellow stuff.
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I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.
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The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
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The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.
