Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
I dont do drugs. I am drugs.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you like what you do, you will succeed.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.
Nogle gange ønsker folk ikke at høre sandheden, fordi de ikke vil have deres illusioner ødelagt.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
It is better to have clean nails than soil between the ears.
If they want to be with sour and awkward people during their vacation, well, then they should probably choose another travel agency.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
I’ve never tried that before, so I can probably do it well!
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.