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.
Quotes to Explore
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People take things so seriously.
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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'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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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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You're an awful little guy to be such a big thief.
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I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
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We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.
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Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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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.
