Margrethe Vestager Quotes
We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.
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The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.
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We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.
