Isak Dinesen Quotes
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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I love tap!
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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If you have a secret, and it's embarrassing to you, when you tell that story - you own it. It becomes yours, and no one can use it against you.
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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
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Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the cart doesn't go. If you have one wheel called socialism, it doesn't go. If you have only one wheel called capitalism, it doesn't go. It needs two wheels. These two wheels are capitalism and socialism.
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I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
