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Quotes by Danish Authors
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
"This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably."
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
"There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs."
"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."
"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."
"Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system."
"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem."
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
"For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper."
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
"The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart."
"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
"It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers."
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