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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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
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I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?
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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.
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Aurora had but newly chased the night,And purpled o'er the sky with blushing light.
