Tor Norretranders Quotes

#1. Civilization is about removing information about our surroundings; discarding information about nature so our senses are not burdened with all that information and our consciousness can concentrate on other matters.

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#2. If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

Lilly Singh

#3. I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

#5. Teenagers think they're invincible

John Green

#6. But without a family, a man is nothing.

Aravind Adiga

#7. Do we focus on pruning out all evil, or do we focus on growing love?

Sierra Simone

#8. People have been watching me since I was eight. They've been watching me grow up, so they feel that connection with me.

Kyle Massey

#9. To be aware of an experience means that it has passed

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#10. Wait. Are you actually suggesting that any woman who doesn't kiss your ass must therefore be gay?" He shrugged. "And you wonder why I must insult you.

Kylie Scott

#11. It is not what we say to each other every day that establishes all the meaning and beauty and truth, it is everything we think before we speak

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#12. You sense far more than you are conscious of. Whether you want to or not

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#13. I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

W. Edwards Deming

#14. I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

Jackie Chan

#15. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

#16. I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Aleksandar Hemon

#17. The least interesting aspect of good conversation is what is actually said. What is more interesting is all the deliberations and emotions that take place simultaneously

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#18. The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror.

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#19. Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.

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#20. Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.

Bart D. Ehrman

#21. Sometimes you have to decide between doing what you love and being loveable, and the decision is always painful.

Laurie Penny

#22. The words are merely references to something not present

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#23. A thing not structured and organized contains more information, because it is more difficult to describe

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