Iris Johansen Quotes
Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
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You've gotta be slightly stupid.
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I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up.
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Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.
