Morten Harket Quotes
I feel very strong about 'Brother.' This is me. I've been writing with a much more free sky, open and free.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.
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I feel very strong about 'Brother.' This is me. I've been writing with a much more free sky, open and free.
