Erro (Guðmundur Guðmundsson) Quotes
Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, 'Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.'
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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He is so vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a Parliamentary constitution is not favorable to such ambitions; things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
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The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.
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No court can make time stand still.
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It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.
