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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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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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'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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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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Money should be used to help others.
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Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
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When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.
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Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.
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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.
