Carl I. Hagen (Carl Ivar Hagen) Quotes
The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
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Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
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Neglect of appearance becomes men.
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
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I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.
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Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.
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The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.
