Margrethe Vestager Quotes
I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.
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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.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I'm bad at returning phone calls.
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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.
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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.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
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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.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
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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.
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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.
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May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
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When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.
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Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.
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I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.
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We have the flexibility to work with any potential merchant partner across the globe.
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Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
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I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.
