Astrid Lindgren Quotes
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements.
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I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
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Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.
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You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.
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When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.
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Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
