Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Quotes

For a long time I though that one had to accomplish something. Now I just watch, listen, receive. Live.

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

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• I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

  

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  • Text

• I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Once

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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  • Child
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• Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Always
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  • Issue

• When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

  

  Sam Trammell
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• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
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  • Imagination
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• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • You
  • Story
  • See

• We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Information

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Become
  • Task

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Age
  • Today

• Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Sometimes
  • Same
  • Criticism

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• ...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Thinking

• I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Life

• The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Nice
  • Criticism
  • Anger

• The world is changing, and you have to keep up with the way the world is changing as well as your own expectations that you set for yourself or that your family might set you.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• For a long time I though that one had to accomplish something. Now I just watch, listen, receive. Live.

  

  Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
  • Live
  • Thought
  • Watch