Margrethe Vestager Quotes
My parents didn't do office hours, and they did not do vacations, so if you had a problem, you could always come around. I watched them and thought, 'OK, this is what you are supposed to do.' I was very engaged in my local primary school and when I went to secondary school and to university. And one thing led to another, and here I am.
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I always played to win.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.
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I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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My parents didn't do office hours, and they did not do vacations, so if you had a problem, you could always come around. I watched them and thought, 'OK, this is what you are supposed to do.' I was very engaged in my local primary school and when I went to secondary school and to university. And one thing led to another, and here I am.
