Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.
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Boor, bond of thy herd,Tonight stretch full by the fire!
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Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with having sex, you know. At any age.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
