Margrethe Vestager Quotes
Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
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The language of communication will always need to be renewed.
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I sacrificed to the mania of the age, which is to overload things. My modeling is there, the eloquence of the gesture also. The rest would only spoil the essential things. It is a stroke of genius. I am going to write to the under-secretary of state that my monument is ready.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.
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I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.
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I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
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Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
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Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.
