Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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Also, I use facial masks diligently. I use at least two a day - one for moisturizing and one for whitening. I think I go through at least 600 sheets of facial masks every year.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.
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I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.
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Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
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When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.
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People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
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I drank that sentence and began to glow.
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We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
