Karin Tidbeck Quotes
Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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To go back means defeat.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.
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Unfortunately, Republicans repeatedly waste taxpayer time and money, and even shut down the government, in efforts to repeal ACA. We simply cannot afford this kind of dysfunction.
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A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.
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Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.
