Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir Quotes
When you sing, play instruments, write&produce and the media portrays you as "singer" but your male colleagues who do the same "musicians".
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
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It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
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We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.
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I have a lot of faith in President Obama. The thing that seems to be true of him is that he doesn't speak when you would expect him to speak. He's very measured in his response to things. He likes to get all the facts first before he shoots his mouth off. It makes me crazy; it makes a lot of people crazy.
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I think that anyone who promotes in a group starts at some point to think about what they are going to do after their group disbands. When I started thinking about that myself, I thought back to my reason for becoming a singer.
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If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!
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It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'
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When you sing, play instruments, write&produce and the media portrays you as "singer" but your male colleagues who do the same "musicians".
