My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
With great powers comes great responsibilities.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
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.
All warfare is based on deception.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
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.
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
Do you ever miss yourself? The person you were before you had your first heartbreak or before you got betrayed by a person you trusted? I do.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.
I don’t hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hate the sexy image, hate the pictures of me on stage, hate the big vulgar person. On stage, I act the whole time I’m there. As soon as I come out of those songs, I’m Tina again.
Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
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.