Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I don't listen to music when I run; I like the quiet. It gives me time to think about my family, our businesses, the farm - there's not much I don't think about, to be honest.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.
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I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.
