Esaias Tegner Quotes
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God.
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No, it's not love, but it's not bad.
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A woman's honor rests on manly love.
