Agnes Obel Quotes
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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I don't think I'm a good dancer.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
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I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
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Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.
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In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
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When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
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When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.
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The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.
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As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.
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Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.
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When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
