Arne Garborg Quotes
“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
Quotes to Explore
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
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I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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To me, everything's competition.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
