Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes

The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: June 28, 1970

Topics

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Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.

Joe Scarborough

TruthHugJust BecauseGroupMean

I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'

Joanna Lumley

AmbitionThoughtDoingEnoughCareer

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Max Lerner

YourselfHurtOthersAgainstAny

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

Robert Preston

MarriageI AmSomeoneWhoGiverAm

I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

Statik Selektah

FatherParentsCityNewBostonUp

My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

Tony La Russa

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Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Roland Joffe

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Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

KindnessFriendsDoorsRelationships

Sometimes animal exercises can help you get in touch with parts of yourself that you don't access day to day. In my day-to-day physicality, I'm a little bit like a terrier. I've always been described as a dog. I'm kind of goofy and a little dopey looking sometimes.

Jordan Gavaris

DogDayYourselfAnimalLookingYou

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

PowerWorldEndPoliticalHandsNow

Women come into our shop for that ultimate moment in their life. They're buying a dream. They're buying a moment for themselves. That's what I sell - moments.

Philip Treacy

LifeWomenMomentMomentsDreamOur

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.

Philipp Meyer

CharacterArtBookChoicesPolitical

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