Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'
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Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
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You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
