Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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Many are called but few get up.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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I'm a bed monster.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
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I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
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I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice.
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I have done a lot of interviews over the years, so you think I would know how to handle difficult questions, etc. But the truth is, I don't.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
