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Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Integrity Alone Moment Responsibility

I was not an activist.

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

Spiritual Candle Me Relax World

For me, one song is not enough to be in a person's world. I need to be in their world for 40 minutes; I want to fully experience it and immerse myself.

Myself Experience Me World Song

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.

Child Law Thought Know Goalkeeper

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

Life Hollywood Whole Does Defined

Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

Sometimes Always Threatening Direct

My wife is very supportive.

Demetrious Johnson

Wife Supportive Very

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Parents Night Think Fighting

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

Work Believe Independent I Believe

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

Bojana Novakovic

Life Work Me World Loved Better

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

Best Mind Cool Singing Face Thought

The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.

Good Decision Speed Governance

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