Simen Hestnæs (ICS Vortex) Quotes

Spiritual Black Dimensions was recorded over a period of two months, actually. We shortened it down a bit.

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• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership
  • Ever
  • Replace

• The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Good
  • Without
  • Vices

• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Actor

• I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Important
  • Heart
  • America

• 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

  

  Corey Clark
  • Up
  • Great
  • Done

• I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Cat

• I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.

  

  Anohni
  • Women
  • Humanity

• I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

  

  Allan Sloan
  • Business
  • Sunday

• If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.

  

  Donald McCaig
  • Trust
  • Dog

• It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • America
  • Energy
  • Party

• I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • School
  • Fashion

• Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.

  

  John Cena
  • Why
  • Cool
  • Serious

• I was very sexual from a very young age.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Age

• I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Work
  • Guy

• The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Up
  • Time

• There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Simplicity

• Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

  

  Chantal Joffe
  • Ideas
  • Painting
  • Paint

• When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.

  

  Aurora Levins Morales
  • Written
  • Ask
  • Recorded

• There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The data on which scientific theorizing is based are rather the propositional contents of the instrument readings recorded, or the facts detected thereby.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Scientist
  • Observation
  • Recorded

• Spiritual Black Dimensions was recorded over a period of two months, actually. We shortened it down a bit.

  

  Simen Hestnæs Borknagar
  • Recorded