Margrethe Vestager Quotes
If you're successful in the market, it should be because you have the best products. Then your customers like you, not because then you cut corners, or you get a tax break, or you don't inform authorities about how things actually are.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.
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The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, 'Chill out, man. That's out of line.'
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.
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The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!
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It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.
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If you're successful in the market, it should be because you have the best products. Then your customers like you, not because then you cut corners, or you get a tax break, or you don't inform authorities about how things actually are.
