Arne Jacobsen Quotes
I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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Never explain, never complain.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
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How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?
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'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.
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Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
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It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.
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The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
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We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.
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Fashion says 'Me too', and style says 'Only me'.
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If my music can change someone's mood for the better even a little bit, that's amazing.
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I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
