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Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: swedish
Birth: July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961

Topics

Nature Mountain You Measure Never

When I attended Emerson College in Boston, it was confined to the Back Bay, but now it has taken over a lot of Boston, which is great.

Great College Back Now Boston Over

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Time Looking Look Know Movies Hard

Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.

Experience Me Write Two Anything

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

Life Time Slow You Down Stop

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

Robbie Robertson

Freedom Feel Storytelling Sense

I feel like if I couldn't write, I would explode.

Feel Write I Feel Like Would Like

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.

Attitude Food Effort People Research

My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.

Work Good Camera You Look Person

There's a fairy story called the 'The Shoemaker and the Elves' where this old cobbler keeps leaving leather out overnight and wakes up the next day, and there's a new pair of shoes. Co-authoring is a little like that. You send off the manuscript to your partner, and a few days later, you check your email, and hey, there's more book in here!

Shoes Day Book Story Partner You

Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.

Money More Paid Boxes Would Most

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Music Art Brain You Human Side

Unfortunately, I had to pull out of Vancouver. I'm really sorry; I didn't expect to go this far in Rogers Cup, and I just wanted to say, just apologize.

Denis Shapovalov

Sorry Go Say Apologize Out Expect

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