The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
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.
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.
Til we meet again, may God bless you. Adios.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
All warfare is based on deception.
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
I was raised in a free and liberal home. I have never felt threatened by other cultures, other colors or other ways of thinking. In 30 years, there will be more and more colors in the minds of the people who walk around our streets. And we want to move around a lot more ourselves. It is also necessary that we open up if we are to remain strong at that time.
If you only want to see dog shit, then there is dog shit.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
Grief is the price we pay for love.