Henrik Ibsen Quotes

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

Henrik Ibsen

• Men
• Lost
• Liberty

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

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• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

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• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

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• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

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• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

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• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

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• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

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• I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.

  

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• I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

  

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• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
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• Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

  

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• Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

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• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  

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• I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

  

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• I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

  

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• Fez gave her a squeeze. 'You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.' She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. 'It just makes sense, is all.''Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.'

  

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• People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

  

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• Nobles’ sons are one of nature’s great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you’re struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage.

  

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• Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

  

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• I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.

  

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• Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

  

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• I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.

  

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Men
  • Lost
  • Liberty