Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.
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I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
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‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.
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The rottenness comes from within.
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I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression.
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
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I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
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Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
