Erland Josephson Quotes

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

Erland Josephson

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• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Time
  • World
  • High

• I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Street
  • Workers
  • Construction

• I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Afraid
  • Dentist

• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • God
  • Fear

• If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Focused
  • Outside

• The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Alive
  • Championship

• Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Real
  • House

• I was feeling it. I felt like that put us in a good position to win the game at that point.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Good
  • Game
  • Feeling

• I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Hell

• Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Instruments
  • Attack

• When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life

• I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Long
  • Research
  • Run

• It goes without saying, you have to win. You have to win more than one of them. You have to win a couple of them.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Win

• I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Win
  • Sport
  • Bodyguards

• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• My mom and I are very close.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mom
  • Very
  • Close

• A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

  

  Erland Josephson
  • Obsessed
  • Portraying