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.
Halldor Laxness
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Candice Swanepoel
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
Laura Vandervoort
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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.
Laura Carmichael
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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.
Hank Stram
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I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.
Lena Headey
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper
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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
Honore de Balzac
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian
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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
Ang Lee
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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.
Halldor Laxness
