Isak Dinesen Quotes
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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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'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.
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When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.
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We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
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I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
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The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.
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A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.
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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
