Ulf Gunnar Ekberg (Buddha) Quotes
I want to point out that I never been a member of Swedish Democrats. That is a factual error, whereas mine was an error more serious than that.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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It certainly will be if you are still around.
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I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
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The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.
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I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.
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I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.
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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
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In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
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It changed the game right there. He always seems to make the big plays when we need them.
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It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear. The reality was starting to set in.
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I want to point out that I never been a member of Swedish Democrats. That is a factual error, whereas mine was an error more serious than that.
