Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (Lykke Li) Quotes
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I work hard and support myself.
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I don't really like the sound of Auto-Tune. I don't like when it's extremely audible, when you're able to detect it easily. I don't like that.
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?
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On my foot it says, 'The best is yet to come,' and that's there because I really believe it.
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Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
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The yielding marble of her snowy breast.
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.. I reprobate the mechanically systematic approach of drawing.. ..so generally diffused. I think it can produce nothing but manner and sameness.
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Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.
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Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me.
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Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.
