Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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I will not take 'but' for an answer.
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Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
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Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not moving, it's a dead ball, simple as that.
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Genius sees the answer before the question.
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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
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Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.
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God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
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People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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You take the good with the bad. But sometimes when you are making an effort to answer everybody's question and request, then you get one like that. It affects how much I look at (fan mail) and how much I send back, but I still do.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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The thing I like most about acting is that it entertains people. Films and TV can also offer such comfort to people... TV especially, because it's in people's homes and they can watch it at home. It offers them insights into different cultures and ideas, which I think is great.
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The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
