Freddie Ljungberg (Karl Fredrik Ljungberg) Quotes
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome when you edit it together. It's great!
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
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I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.
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I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.
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Humor is the mistress of tears.
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The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.
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Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
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Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.
