Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Henrik Ibsen

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• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

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• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

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• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

  

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• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

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• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

  Imelda Staunton
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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

  

  Raf Simons
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• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
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• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  

  Larry Niven
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• Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

  Vincent Canby
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• I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.

  

  Jackie Evancho
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• Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

  

  William James
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• Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

  

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• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

  

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• Despite the well-documented effects of anger, fear, and anxiety on the ability to reason, many programs continue to ignore the need to engage the safety system of the brain before trying to promote new ways of thinking. The last things that should be cut from school schedules are chorus, physical education, recess, and anything else involving movement, play, and joyful engagement. When children are oppositional, defensive, numbed out, or enraged, it’s also important to recognize that such “bad behavior” may repeat action patterns that were established to survive serious threats, even if they are intensely upsetting or off-putting.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Safety
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• Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Happiness
  • Illusion
  • Average