Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.
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The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
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When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.
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I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
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I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.
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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.
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Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
