Henrik Ibsen Quotes
I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Its overshadowing formlessness obsesses the mind. The way to beat an enemy is to define him clearly, to analyse and measure him. Once an idea is intelligently grasped, it ceases to threaten the mind with the terrors of the unknown.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.
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The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
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With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
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choosing his scenes by: ..night vigils at the back window.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
