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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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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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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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
