"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg."

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Source : Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

Hans Christian Andersen

#Swans Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Ducks Quotes

“We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor.”
“I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.”

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“I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.”

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“When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.”

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“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.”
“Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.”
“In order to forgive, you must have blamed.”
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

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