Bin Ramke Quotes
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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I believe when things are going well, there's pressure, and when things are going bad, there's pressure. The pressure is more on the outside than inside.
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As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.
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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
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Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.
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As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.
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The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.
