Axel Munthe Quotes
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
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My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it.
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I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead
