Lykke Li Quotes

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Lykke Li

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GardeningMeBakingDramaAway

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Andrew Carnegie

WiseStopSeriousDifficultTask

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleYouBackHugKnowAustralia

I like to challenge myself. There are not many guys on tour who can give me a challenge in Ping-Pong. So I'll throw some points to see if I can come back.

Matt Kuchar

MyselfChallengeMeBackI CanSee

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

FailureLookingPressureFeelYou

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

Mia Maestro

TimeYouImportantSomethingMake

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

Amy Chua

SuccessIdentityMeThinkGeneration

I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Stephen Curry

FamilyJobBabyYoungShyStarting

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.

Sidney Crosby

LoveIcePlayComfortableSomething

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.

Jonas Armstrong

JobMeThinkHoodIndiaCocky

Mommy and Daddy both had jobs when I was a kid, so, like a lot of people my age, TV became Mommy and books became Daddy.

Christopher McCulloch

AgePeopleKidDaddyBooksLike

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Christen Press

TimeSameFailKeepHardestPushing

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

OverUsedWellCompulsive

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