Nina Persson Quotes

We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.

Nina Persson A Camp

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• Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Boundaries

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Writer

• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Day
  • Evil

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• Math is one of my favorite subjects.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Math
  • Favorite
  • Subjects

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Hand
  • Better
  • Determination

• Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

  

  Arthur Henderson
  • Action
  • Confidence
  • Mood

• Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Record
  • Superman
  • Batman

• There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of looking into the eyes of the other and falling hopelessly in love - that this is nothing more than a delusion; a mutual projection, a fantasy that will only last until reality sets in.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Mythology

• The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Shape
  • Don't Think
  • Harassment

• We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.

  

  Nina Persson A Camp
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Wells