Aurora (Aurora Aksnes) Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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I hate the word sexy.
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I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.
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We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.
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Aurora had but newly chased the night,And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light.
