Morten Harket Quotes
The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.
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Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!
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One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
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Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
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I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.
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I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.
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Movement and physics: These are the fundamentals of animation. You don't notice that stuff if it's done well, but if fabric or liquid or hair moves weird, your brain is like, 'Wait, that's not real.'
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Even as a child, I had that sort of defense mechanism. If something was awkward, I would try to lighten it up by making people laugh. But like Chandler, I've grown up a little bit in the last eight years and become a lot more comfortable with my serious side. I feel the need to fill the silences a lot less with jokes.
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The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.
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The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.
