Birgitta Jonsdottir Quotes

If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.

Birgitta Jonsdottir

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• Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Same
  • Situation
  • Turn

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Home
  • Car

• Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Hockey

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Spiritual

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• New York ladies all look immaculate.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Look
  • New
  • New York

• Hit hard, hit fast and hit often

  

  William Halsey
  • Firsts
  • Hard

• The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible.

  

  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • Universe
  • Impossible
  • Inevitable

• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • American
  • Saint
  • Communist

• You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Crazy
  • Daily

• The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Moving

• If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.

  

  Birgitta Jonsdottir
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Information