Karin Tidbeck Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
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I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
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I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
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Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
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Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.
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Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of time.
