Baltasar Kormakur Quotes
The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
