Stieg Larsson (Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson) Quotes

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

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• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Song

• I was tested against the best.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Best
  • Against
  • Tested

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Tired
  • Uncertainty

• It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • True
  • Paris

• I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Development
  • Fan
  • Arrested

• My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • End
  • Honor
  • Talk

• My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Taught

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• There were definitely lyrics and they were very meaningful. I think.

  

  Beck
  • Lyrics
  • Meaningful

• The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

  

  Claude Debussy

• Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

  

  Edward VIII
  • King

• In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• No man can be stronger than his destiny.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Destiny

• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I've fought to close the gender and racial pay gap for a very long time. One piece of advice I like to give whenever I'm speaking on the subject: if you want equal pay, join a union! I've never seen a union contract that pays women 79 cents to a man's dollar.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.

  

  John McLaughlin
  • Great
  • History
  • Today

• No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Thought

• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

  

  Stieg Larsson
  • Women
  • Society
  • Interest