Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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'Cause maybe you're loveable.Maybe you're my snowflake.And your eyes turn from green to gray.And in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place.And you should never cut your hair,'Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder.And you will never knowJust how beautiful you are to me.But maybe I'm just in loveWhen you wake me up.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
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One may well use one’s head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down.
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There is no substitute for intuition.
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1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as an editor, the assistant editor thought I had a gift, and when he shot his own film, he hired me as his assistant camera, and I trained myself to do the light for him.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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The God that can be named is not God.
