Karl Ove Knausgaard Quotes
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
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There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
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The 2008 battle in Iowa for the Democratic caucus was perhaps the most titanic single nominating contest in the history of modern politics.
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A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
