Kari Stefansson Quotes
We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I was 19 when I discovered Pilates, and I'm still doing it. It's the workout my body really responds to. It's all about alignment, elongating your spine, and strengthening your core. It makes me feel my strongest.
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.
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A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
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Plumbing is usually boring.
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If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.
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I think I have been very conscious throughout my career. I can't go back and remember every line of every ad I have done, but I think in the most part I have been pretty conscious that we are not making a wrong claim. I am pretty confident with everything I do.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.
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I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.
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If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
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So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
