That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
I am completely overwhelmed. It’s a good thing you don’t turn 100 every day. Even though I don’t have that much energy anymore, I still want to take a few more years.
I’m called the poorest president, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
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.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions .
I thought I was stone rich, so I poured money out with both hands – and now I owe right and left.
The most memorable moments in life are the ones you never planned.
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.
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.
I have an agreement with Lilholt and Olsen that we always play a Dalton song when we’re out on a solo tour, as it costs 280 kroner in Koda tax. It’s not much, but for them it’s a lot.
The hardest thing about doing good business is avoiding doing the bad ones.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
The pill is one of the biggest advances I’ve seen.
If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.
Each day is a new beginning, I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God.
People ask if it is difficult to play while drunk. It’s not, as long as you make sure you are when you practice.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, itøs probably crap.
Some of life’s big questions: Where do we come from, where are we going and where do we put the empty bottles?
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.
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
I’m not where I want to be, but I’m proud I’m not where I used to be.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.