Erland Josephson Quotes
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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.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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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.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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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.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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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.
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I was feeling it. I felt like that put us in a good position to win the game at that point.
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
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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.
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I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.
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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.
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I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
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Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without
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My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
