Henrik Pontoppidan Quotes

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

Henrik Pontoppidan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: July 24, 1857 - August 21, 1943

Topics

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When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

Jessie Matthews

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Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Jerry Saltz

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Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

Robert Manning

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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

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If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Ron Wyden

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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

Rudy Rucker

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Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Martin Rees

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One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston's Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.

Jon Taffer

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Sky Harbor may be a city airport, but it's an Arizona vital resource used by citizens all over the state, and our economy is dependent on its success.

Doug Ducey

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Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

Craig Kelly

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Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

Arthur Laffer

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