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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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
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Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.
