Astrid Lindgren Quotes
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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Modern readers are apt to be shocked at the idea that God should be prepared to kill off large numbers of men in order to provide an object lesson for those who survive. John [in Revelation] is more realistic about the fact of death. All men must die, and the question mark which death sets over their existence is just as great whether they die late or soon, alone or in company, violently or in their beds. Their ultimate destiny is not determined either by the moment or by the manner of their death, as the untimely death of the martyrs should prove, but by the opening of the heavenly books and by the true and just judgments which proceed from the great white throne.
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Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
