Maj Sjowall Quotes
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.
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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.
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You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
