Louise Mensch Quotes
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.
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Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
