Aslaug Magnusdottir Quotes

I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

  

  Weegee
  • People
  • Moment
  • Wait

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Want
  • Conflict
  • Solution

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Science
  • Political
  • Professional

• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Political
  • Happiness

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Christian
  • Saying

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Hollywood
  • Credit

• The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Help
  • Myself

• Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Conversation
  • Group
  • Twitter

• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Childhood

• Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Ambition

• I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

• I used to impersonate people a lot when I was very young. But the good Lord gives us teachers to make fun of first. And then, of course, by college, I eventually graduated to a more sophisticated kind of comedy more people were familiar with.

  

  James Adomian
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • People
  • Soul

• Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Help
  • Smart

• I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • People
  • Walking
  • Wine