Carl Nielsen Quotes
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.
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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.
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They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.
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I wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something!
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I do think the position I play is a powerful position.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency." It's really ridiculous.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
