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'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
  • Courtesy

• 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

• Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • American
  • Holiday
  • Thanksgiving

• My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.

  

  Scott Stapp
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dad

• Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • People
  • Respect
  • Worry

• There was a god or goddess of wind, rain, lightning, thunder, clouds, stars, sun, and of course, the moon goddess, and they all more or less worked under SkyMaker.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • God
  • Sun
  • Wind

• When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Great
  • Community

• Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

  

  George A. Sheehan
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Courage

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

  

  Margrethe Vestager