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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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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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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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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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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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
