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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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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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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I hate competition.
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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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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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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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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
