Selma Lagerlof Quotes
It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
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People take things so seriously.
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We shred every day.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
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Russia is not a threat to France - why should I be hostile to Russia.
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.
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It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
