Aurora (Aurora Aksnes) Quotes
The wolves have prey'd: and look, the gentle day,Before the wheels of Phœbus, round about,Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.

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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
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I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.
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I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'
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We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.
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I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.
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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.
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Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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The wolves have prey'd: and look, the gentle day,Before the wheels of Phœbus, round about,Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.