Karl-Henrik Robert Quotes
Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.
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There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
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I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.
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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.
