Fever Ray (Karin Elisabeth Dreijer) Quotes
Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).
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Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
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Voice is my instrument.
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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
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Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.
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Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.
