I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.
I’m attracted to myths.
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
Nogle gange ønsker folk ikke at høre sandheden, fordi de ikke vil have deres illusioner ødelagt.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
I was raised in a free and liberal home. I have never felt threatened by other cultures, other colors or other ways of thinking. In 30 years, there will be more and more colors in the minds of the people who walk around our streets. And we want to move around a lot more ourselves. It is also necessary that we open up if we are to remain strong at that time.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
When it’s hurting you that’s when you can make a difference.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
I’ve never tried that before, so I can probably do it well!
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us.
Now the gossip must stop. Now I’m tired of getting sucked into your columns. Then you must sue me if you dare.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
Der er kun én succes – at kunne tilbringe dit liv på din egen måde.