Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
