Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

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• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • History
  • Easy

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

  

  Wale
  • Great
  • Art
  • Rapper

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• A laugh is a terrible weapon.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Laugh
  • Terrible
  • Weapon

• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Technology
  • Quality

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Panacea

• When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Wise
  • Personality

• Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

  

  T.I.
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Man

• 'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Music
  • Age
  • Fashion

• I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.

  

  Bill Pullman

• Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

  

  George Washington
  • Money
  • Commerce
  • Fraud

• You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Script

• I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.

  

  AJ Lee
  • People
  • Important

• Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Spite