Vilhjalmur Stefansson Quotes
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold standard.
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Yes, I'm a real southern boy.
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There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.