Agnes Obel Quotes

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

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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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Planet

• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Memory

• I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Language

• I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Thought
  • News
  • Journalism

• From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • View
  • Networking
  • Far Away

• Saving a life overrides territories.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Life
  • Saving
  • Territories

• 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.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Worry
  • Treat

• Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Fun
  • Away
  • Stepping

• 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.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • Right
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Harmony

• In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Me
  • Financial
  • Fate

• When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Truth
  • American
  • Imagination

• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Wisdom
  • Fool

• 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.

  

  Antonin Artaud

• 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.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work
  • Together
  • Relationship

• We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Judge

• You are forever alone.

  

  John Buchanan Robinson
  • Alone
  • Forever

• You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • You
  • Mining
  • Globally

• Most interviewers probe and pry into your personal life, and I just don’t like it. I respect everyone’s right to privacy, and I feel mine should be respected, too.

  

  Jennifer Jones
  • Respect
  • Privacy
  • Personal Life

• I'm reaching out to all Americans - Democrats, Republicans, and independents - because we need everybody to help make our country what it should be, to grow the economy, to make it fairer, to make it work for everyone. We need your talents, your skills, your commitments, your energy, your ambition.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Energy
  • Ambition
  • Economy

• I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Brother

• When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

  

  Agnes Obel