Henrik Ibsen Quotes

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Henrik Ibsen

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• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • War
  • Soldiers
  • Heroes

• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Heroes
  • Identify
  • Clint

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Finance

• There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • School
  • Sales

• Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Family
  • Two
  • Heroes

• It starts with campaign finance reform.

  

  Zack Space
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Campaign

• Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • God
  • Help
  • Finance

• It was one of the greatest moments in sports for me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Moments
  • Sports
  • Memories

• One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Long
  • Sports

• Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • Country
  • True

• The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Power
  • Society
  • Easy

• Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Heart

• Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Team
  • Sport
  • Personalities

• That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

  

  Bono U2
  • Music
  • I Think
  • ABBA

• Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

  

  David Dixon
  • Community
  • Fashion
  • Vision

• Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.

  

  Darrel Ray
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Sport
  • Heroes
  • Finance