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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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.
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'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
