You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
Susanne Bier
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What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
SAM CLAFLIN Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to l...
RICHARD BACH What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something...
THOMAS SOWELL When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can g...
DIEGO MARADONA Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portra...
TOBIN BELL It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away...
MARLENE DUMAS I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' gir...
SIENNA MILLER We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of w...
BURGESS OWENS I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come ...
STELLAN SKARSGARD If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your rig...
KIM DOTCOM The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to ...
IMTIAZ ALI You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you ...
ADAM CAROLLA I was struggling with anorexia, and one of the biggest problems with an eating disorder is you don...
LINDSEY STIRLING But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet,...
ALAN WATTS It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
D. B. SWEENEY Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and...
ERIQ LA SALLE Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our l...
CARRIE NUGENT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro...
LEWIS BLACK I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul...
BLYTHE DANNER Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. Yo...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don...
JACKSON BROWNE People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han...
MITCH HEDBERG One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirro...
THOMAS FRANK If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of...
ALAN GREENSPAN But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and ...
JAMES DEAN It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based u...
MAURICE FLANAGAN When you win a championship, it is a great feeling, and you really don't want that feeling to go...
PAUL PIERCE My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
DAN GABLE You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't ju...
NEIL PEART I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. ...
GARY HUME Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. Sh...
DEMIAN BICHIR I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influen...
JOYCE MEYER Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self...
JUSTICE SMITH Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do ...
CHELSEA CAIN Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get ...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ One must pass through the network of influence. One is obligated to be influenced, and one accepts t...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't hav...
JOHN C. MAXWELL But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is...
DAVID MCCALLUM Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you'...
DIANNA AGRON I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't real...
BRITTANY DANIEL I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' i...
SELENA GOMEZ I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't...
LATOYA LONDON It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken...
BOOTSY COLLINS The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar...
OREN PELI I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written ...
JAMES SALTER What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligatio...
MARLA GIBBS I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you d...
AVIVA I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Dart...
MARGARET ATWOOD If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very f...
BONNIE HUNT It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and a...
DREW BARRYMORE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to...
TYNE DALY I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.
VINCE STAPLES Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with yo...
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH Short films don't go too far.
MATTHEW MCGRORY I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn...
ANDERSON COOPER One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That ge...
DIEDRICH BADER What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to b...
LINDSAY PEARCE It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&...
JOEL MADDEN Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
TAYLOR NEGRON It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because i...
GWEN MOORE I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessiv...
FRANK OZ You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.
BIG SEAN You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don'...
HARRY BROWNE Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
JASON PRIESTLEY I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links...
TARIQ ALI Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ...
CECILIA BARTOLI It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't c...
BILLY HIGGINS I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having...
AKON It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an eff...
ALEXANDRA ROACH At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ...
TYGA You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child...
REGINA KING You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Bec...
MICHELLE OBAMA Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to...
DANNY DEVITO An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's be...
ANATOLE FRANCE When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scri...
WHIT STILLMAN Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but...
ALLISON WILLIAMS Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want t...
PAUL ANKA I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside ...
SELENA GOMEZ I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have...
BARBRA STREISAND On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. I...
YUVRAJ SINGH My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonpl...
JUDITH HOAG It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. ...
CAB CALLOWAY Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy w...
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