Hans Rosling Quotes
Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.
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Does this country really exist?
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When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.
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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
