Agnes Obel Quotes

I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.

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• It's those damn critics again.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Again
  • Damn

• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
  • Substance

• I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Think
  • Everyone

• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Winning
  • Hurt
  • Ability

• I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Day
  • Amazing

• No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Stage
  • Elements

• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Hope
  • Look
  • Difficult

• I do not have very much office experience.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Office

• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Because
  • Female
  • Mozart

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Good
  • Successful

• At least my mural of Leonardo da Vinci still exists on the wall of their offices, which were subsequently taken over by Expedia. They had the wall insured.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Taken
  • Wall

• Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Marriage
  • Gay
  • Bible

• Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Heart

• Gold and Economic Freedom 1966

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Freedom
  • Gold

• I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Women

• In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Remember
  • Language
  • Dreams

• I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Trust
  • Unity

• I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Mother
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Nature
  • Laugh
  • Created

• I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.

  

  Agnes Obel