53 quotes found
"Love is a cure. A promise, still so pure."
"Rise like the tide, No need to hide."
"Oh, here we go They're all waiting for a cure"
"You cut me out in little stars. And place me in the sky."
"you show me The world as it could be Through your kaleidoscope It's beautiful"
"Catch me as I fly Passing by at night Watch me as I go,"
"outside It's another world When the moon is high"
"Down the narrow streets I can feel the breeze Feel the mroning bliss"
"Sleepless, Twenty-four hours of searching Searching for my life"
"There are no guarantees in life Not for the present, Nor for the future."
"All I know is That I'm here; Don't know for how long."
"I love the way You live so intensely enjoying every minute of life"
"The past, the present, And the future, Are all side by side, Hand in hand"
"You stare at me, And ask me questions, Makes me nervous"
"...[T]hat lunatic monster..."
"She was so open and frank... She made space around her, if we just behaved... Everybody seemed to trust this woman and gathered gladly around her."
"He was pretty. His eyes were kind and young. One had to wonder whether he was fourteen years old, or a thousand, being so smooth and untouched. A little boy peered out of the man's face. He was funny... I was bewildered... a man, responsible for the life and death of thousands, and yet there was no trace on him? One could be frightened of less, and yet so harmlessly innocent? Yes, innocent was the word... I knew I would remember this meeting the rest of my life, because I had never before met an emptyness like this."
"This face seemed full of suffering, despair, confusion, so that I became uneasy again... It seemed like tiredness and defeatism spread from him to everyone close by."
"[Capitalism]... is a great troll. It settles in a society, and then eats away silently. Eats more and more freedom, more humanity, more human rights, more ability to speak..."
"Don't you remember that it is not easy to guard against the sin to which love drags?"
"In her extensive work, an Iliad of the North, Sigrid Undset has resurrected in a new and visionary light the ideals which once guided our forefathers who built that community from which our Germanic culture derived. To an age in which it may be easier to acknowledge that the right to the greatest happiness is the duty of renunciation – to this age Sigrid Undset has shown the ideals of our forefathers: duty and faithfulness."
"My fans see me as an angel, but I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal person from Norway who writes music. They expect from me what I expect from them. They would be surprised if I was ever mean or inappropriate, but I want to be a good role model. You become that immediately when you get fans."
"Well, I didn't have a computer in my house before six years ago. But I still got vinyl LPs and had an LP player, but I don't have iTunes or Spotify or Tidal or WiMP or anything. It's just because it just seems very confusing, and complicated. I've been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media because they all talk in different ways. It's a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes. Because I want people to know I wouldn't be here without... people, right?"
"I feel like a city is strange when there is no source of escape. You need mountains, ocean, or forest. My parents have a sailboat and love being in the ocean. I am a forest person. I like to climb trees, to have things over me, to be isolated and hidden."
"I wrote "Runaway" when I was 11 years old. It's quite funny because the older I got, the more it made sense to me. It touched my heart, and now it reminds me of things that happened after I wrote it. It was kind of like a gift to myself. It's weird because my inspiration for the lyrics to "Runaway" came out of nowhere. A few years later, something happened to me (well, the whole of Norway actually), and then the lyrics made so much sense to me. I sat in my house on the usual piano I always write on and it look like an hour, I think. I remember it was completely quiet, it was grey outside. Not light, not dark, not dry, not wet, not cold, not warm – it was kind of one of those out-of-place kind of days. It was kind of like time was standing still."
"Yes, music for me is not about my own pain, relationships, or breakups, I write about the world around me. I want the music to be a nature force big like a mountain, ocean, or hurricane. Music for me is really big and the closest thing I've experienced to something divine. I want people to be reminded of their inner warrior. We're in an important time, fighting for nature and what you believe in. I think we're hungry for more. I write pop music and it's very intellectual and full of emotion. I have many different styles within pop in my songs. Every song has a clear identity and asks for its own colour, its own mood. I'm really missing meaning in pop music and I have been for the last 20 years. I miss the force that we need and I believe that it's up to individuals. We don't have a machine to clear the water of plastic, we have to do it by hand. It's up to us, the people. The true power lies within the people it always has but somehow throughout history, the rich leaders have made it seem like power lies with one person. But that's so old-fashioned, we're getting out of that now, the power lies with the people. I really want to remind people of the power they have that they may have forgotten about."
"I think once in a while we all need something to remind us of the good that exists in the world. And why we exist. Right now the world is going through a lot, together, but we are also isolated. You try to listen to the world when making music. And I felt like the world needed a little love right now."
"It's very hard for me. I don't see the meaning in numbers. I don't have the possibility to understand what they mean in terms of success. I don't get a rush out of them – I wish I did. It's a very hard question for me to answer without seeming ungrateful because I am very honoured that people have let 'Runaway' into their hearts."
"And I was running far away Would I run off the world someday? Nobody knows, nobody knows And I was dancing in the rain I felt alive and I can't complain But now take me home Take me home where I belong I can't take it anymore"
"A gift, a curse, they track and hurt Say can you dream, in nightmare seems? A million voices, silent dreams Where hope is left so incomplete"
"Broken me and broken them And you are broken too Open ears, their eyes are open Makes me call for you"
"The underdogs are my lions The silent ones are my choir The women will be my soldiers With the weight of life on their shoulders"
"If I am left with a rose in my hand, let it die It's the beauty in forgotten love And I don't care if you don't understand why I cry It's the beauty in forgotten love"
"Don't forget who you are even though you are hurt You are caught in a wire and soon it will burst"
"Let her save the world, she is just a girl Let him save them all, he is just a boy Let her save the world, she is just a girl Let him save them all, he is just a boy"
"You cannot eat money, oh, no You cannot eat money, oh, no When the last tree has fallen And the rivers are poisoned You cannot eat money, oh, no"
"I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's "Runaway" music video. Something inside me clicked, like, that is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not."
"I was very fortunate to grow up in the family that I did. I had a mom and dad who were extremely focused toward gender equality. I would call my dad a little feminist sometimes."
"We need to put the same demands on young girls in order for them to feel seen. We don’t take young girls as seriously as we do young boys. And as a footballer, I can see that the end product is not going to be the same quality as it is with the men. We’re just behind, you know?"
"We’ve come a long way, but there’s still such a long way to go, and is it happening at the pace we want it to happen? I don’t think so. You have all these young girls, and it’s about getting them in an environment where they can practice the sport. And I think we failed a little bit."
"The world of football is not just about football; it’s a game of power, gender equality, democracy, and a lot of politics as well."
"I take a lot of responsibility in terms of using my platform to carry the sport into the right direction. Because I know that you’ve had trailblazers before me. Pioneers, grandmothers, mothers. Amazing, badass women who fought for us to get to the place where we’re at today, and I genuinely think that we need to carry that responsibility to make room for the next generation."
"It’s important to say that, in order to be able to be ambitious, or to reach goals, you also need to create an environment where people can stand up, have their opinions and not be put in a box and I am quite confident that I’m coming back into an environment where I will be allowed to be myself."
"As long as you keep consistency in the way you work and in the way you think and are always thinking positively and have a nice little offensive spirit you will get there."
"It was shocking at first, we also had a huge drop in our revenues at the beginning which has since picked up very nicely. It’s hard to remember now, but there were a lot of uncertainties back in the spring of last year. We didn’t know how long it would last, how deep we would fall.”."
"leadership is a team play”, and it is crucial to build trust, focus on how people perform together, and empower them with confidence and autonomy."
"we decided and declared that we would not put anybody on temporary or permanent leave despite the fact that we lost revenue in the beginning. This made employees realize that we really wanted to be in this together.”"
"In a complex world with a lot of uncertainty, leaders have to embrace what seems to be opposing traits to succeed. On one hand, they have to act like heroes, exuding confidence, while on the other hand, they have to be humble, be able to take advice, and change course. In sum, they have to be humble heroes"
"I believe I was quite brave and dared to do new things. I wanted us to be the best at developing and, not least, adopting new technology. I have contributed to get us to where we are on the subsea realm – including developing a complete subsea factory [at Åsgard] many years before anyone else. When you ask me to look back at my time in Equinor, that’s something I am proud of,""
"Then I got to talk to most of the people there. That was very important to me. I don't miss the all-consuming job, but I miss the people. I get quickly attached to people around me. I am still in touch with many of my former colleagues and employees,”"
"I was the only female in most of what I did at the time. I've never been afraid of it, but it's apparent that it wasn't good with so little awareness around gender balance and diversity,”"
"Life is about connecting with people and how can we do that? These 3 abstractions connect every human being on earth love, time, and death. We long for love, we wish we had more time, and we fear death.” I think if we all lived our lives with this in mind, we would move forward in so many ways."
"started really thinking about what I wanted to do and how I could best impact other people’s lives. I concluded that telling my story about racism issues I have dealt with as well as providing support to other people experiencing MS challenges would be a great start."