Agnes Obel Quotes
I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.
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I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.
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One time, I had a nightmare for two weeks after an advert.
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Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
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I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.
