Halldor Laxness Quotes
The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.
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You do get a lot of people complaining if you don't do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about fulfilling that side of things and keeping it fresh for other people who have come to see the show.
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We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
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The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
