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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We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
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He Vladimir Putin would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.
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My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win.
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When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
