Margrethe Vestager Quotes

I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.

Margrethe Vestager

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• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • American
  • Funny

• I'm bad at returning phone calls.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Phone
  • Returning

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

  Hannah More
  • Poverty
  • Youth
  • Luxury

• It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Strong
  • Democracy
  • Smart

• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Science
  • Literature

• I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Play
  • Like
  • Golf

• I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Think

• I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Dad
  • Name
  • Lyrics

• My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • May
  • Enjoy
  • Peaceful

• We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don't feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: 'What an easy way to earn a living.'

  

  Laura Trott
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Women
  • Order
  • Sobriety

• We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Plan
  • Planet
  • Environmental

• When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • People
  • Mind
  • Friends

• That's a baseball mom. I thought it was pretty admirable of my mom. She said she understands the amount of injuries we have around here, and the time of year it is, and she felt bad about it.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Bad
  • Felt
  • Injuries

• When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Mind

• We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • People
  • Help
  • Culture

• I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.

  

  Margrethe Vestager