Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
Carly Fiorina
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
Daniel A. D'Aniello
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
Fernando Pessoa
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
Dan Savage
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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I kept trying to stress that - 'Hang on, we're be-bop guys, we're down in the alley on 57th Street. We're not in there with John Reed and 'Ten Days That Shook the World.' We'd be in the alley with (Charlie) Parker shooting up junk. That's where we were at really.
Joe Strummer
The Clash
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That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
Clotilde Hesme
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It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
Billy Eckstine
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
bell hooks
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It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.
Denzel Washington
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
Alan Alda
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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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See Scott run, Run Scott run. See Scott die, No such luck.
David Lubar
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I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
Ziggy Marley
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South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.
Mario Testino
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen
