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
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
Eartha Kitt
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Taylor Caldwell
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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
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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
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I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.
Aziz Ansari
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.
Homer
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. Abrams
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ShapeShift, like SatoshiDICE before it, demonstrated how an old business could operate in a brand new way because of the properties of cryptocurrencies.
Erik Voorhees
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A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
Erland Josephson