Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and keep some facts to themselves. They just don't give you the full picture, and that's very worrisome to me.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
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Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.
