Carl Nielsen Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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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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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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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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But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
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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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The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.
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Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.
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Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.
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Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
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We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.
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Round numbers are always false.
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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
