If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
In the band, we only drink three drinks a day: two golden beers and a bottle of port.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
Remember, when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you.
If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
My parents have been there for me ever since I was 7 years old.
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.