Vilhjalmur Stefansson Quotes
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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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.
G. Willow Wilson
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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.
Randeep Hooda
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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.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Magnus Carlsen
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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.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
Bill Bailey
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My mom is, like, my unofficial publicist.
John DeLuca
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I do look after everyone around me; that's just who I am. I am a real mother hen.
Penny Lancaster
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The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
Gaston Bachelard
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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
