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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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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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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I'm a fan of action movies.
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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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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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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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Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .
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Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future
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I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.
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It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."
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We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
