Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
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O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
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The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
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Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
