Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house, as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
We just have to go out and shout as loud as we can
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.
The early bird catches the worm
One of the things I can’t get my hands on is something like “Mothers’ Clubs”, where instead of reading a book and walking in nature with their babies, they sit and talk about vomit and nappies and burping with other like-minded people and get nowhere. I think it bothers me a little in the women’s area.
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be home.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
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Your most difficult opponent is not the one facing you. Human nature, on the other hand, is.
And what happens when you go away? When life’s shirt gets too short? Where is the common thread? You have to become something!
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
One man can be crucial to a team, but one man cannot make a whole team.
It may be that you can not buy love for money – but you can buy something similar to confusion.
It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize that there is always a way to solve problems without using violence.
None of us can slow the passage of time; and while we often focus on all that has changed in the intervening years, much remains unchanged, including the Gospel of Christ and his teachings.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
If you train hard, you not only become hard yourself, you also become hard to overcome.
All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naive young boy really. With Peugeot, and es[Simpson]pecially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different.
Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
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.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.