Morten Harket Quotes
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
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KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.
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A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.
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Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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We knew we would make it and become very big.
