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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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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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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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.
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Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.
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I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
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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.
