Isak Dinesen Quotes
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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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This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.
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I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.
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The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.
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I'm trying to make the world a more open place.
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Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in the world and never play for more than 10 people. With that in mind, getting successful doesn't mean anything.
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And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
