Warner Oland (Johan Verner Ölund) Quotes
The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.
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I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
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The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.
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Will I be a success? I don't know.
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My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
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Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
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There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
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There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
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My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.
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The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.
