Aslaug Magnusdottir Quotes
As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
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Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
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I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.
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Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.
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We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.
