Henrik Ibsen Quotes
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
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What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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Unless you find paradise at your own center, there is not the smallest chance That you may enter
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
