Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
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• Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

  

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• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

  

  Ted Allen
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• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

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• I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.

  

  Parker Posey
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• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

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• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

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• My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

  

  Mamnoon Hussain
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• A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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• I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

  

  Laura Bush
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• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
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• If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

  

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• Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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• Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

  

  Pablo Casals
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• If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

  

  L. Frank Baum
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• The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
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