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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The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.
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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly.
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I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
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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.
