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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Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
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'Do you promise you won't hurt me?' asked Arthur. 'You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock,' replied the Old One. 'You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House.' 'Thanks,' said Arthur. 'I think.'
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A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
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If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.
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Just charge me with the usual.
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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.
