Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
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I leave to arrive, go away to be closer.
