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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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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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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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
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I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.
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We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.
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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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We knew we would make it and become very big.
