"People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed."

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Source : "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who?". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

Camilla Lackberg

#Hate Quotes #Weather Quotes #People Quotes

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”
“Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.”
“People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.72, Wildside Press LLC
“...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work...”
“Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.”

Source : Johnny Weir (2011). “Welcome to My World”, p.261, Simon and Schuster
“Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?”

Source : Anita Shreve (2007). “A Wedding in December: A Novel”, Little, Brown
“Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.”
“...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”

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