Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
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• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'

  

  Xavier Niel
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• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
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• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Future
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• Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

  

  Olga Korbut
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• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
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  • Learn

• I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Earth
  • Peace

• We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
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• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  

  Garrett Hardin
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• A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
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• I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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• I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
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• Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Effort
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• I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

  

  Laura Marling
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• The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
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