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Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: October 6, 1914 - April 18, 2002

Topics

World Security Land Military Been

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

Government President Created Private

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

People Person Nervous Group Okay

There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I first saw 'The Color Purple,' it was so huge. That was the first time I had seen myself, my mother, my aunts, women that I had known my whole life on-screen. It gives us hope, and it gives us confidence.

Life Mother Confidence Women Hope

Pepsi is the second-most-recognized beverage brand in the world after Coke, and eighteen of PepsiCo's other brands, which include Tropicana, Gatorade, and Quaker Oats, are billion-dollar businesses in their own right.

World Brand Right Own Pepsi Coke

You can bend reality, but you cannot break it.

Travis Kalanick

Reality You Bend Break Cannot

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

Time World Night End Vegas You

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

Care Die You Know Want Working

Your look changes depending on your confidence, and then your beauty changes. When I first came to New York, all the people were saying, 'You look so Asian because you have a different eye shape.' They didn't really understand because they didn't really see that many Asian models.

Beauty Confidence New York People

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Fishing Clothes Old Liars Delusion

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.

Me Better Finding Traveled Career

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

Struggle Words Moving Writing Down

My heritage is Pakistani, and I have loads of Pakistani fans on social media who I would love to connect with.

Love Social Media Media Heritage Who

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