Margrethe Vestager Quotes
I do not have an issue with specific countries or companies; what I'm interested in are schemes which allow for preferential treatment, for selectivity... If this has to change, it's countries that will have to change this.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
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I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
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All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
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Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up.
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'This is the truth,' we say. 'You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.'
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Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
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I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about.
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Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
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I think my English gets worse. It's a tough language for the French, we phrase things completely different.
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I do not have an issue with specific countries or companies; what I'm interested in are schemes which allow for preferential treatment, for selectivity... If this has to change, it's countries that will have to change this.
