Henrik Ibsen Quotes
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
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I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
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What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
