Erlend Loe Quotes
...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.
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ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν
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I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
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Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.
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Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
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I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
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I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
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It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.
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How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.
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I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
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I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.
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You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.
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Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart.
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...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.
