Karl Ove Knausgaard Quotes
My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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When people feel good, they look good.
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Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.
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Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
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My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
