Halldor Laxness Quotes
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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It's important to keep your power and not give it up.
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We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
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Coaches are people who are close to you, who you call family.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
