My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
You are only as happy as your least happy child-
For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, … is an inspiration and an anchor in my life.
My uncle always said: There are two kinds of music: country and western.
If you can’t outplay them, you have to outfight them.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
Grief is the price we pay for love.
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.
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.
My family is so poor that we combined my father’s funeral with my 50th birthday.
An ordinary Sunday
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
A football player will not do well if he can not run around Funen without breathing.
Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved under the condition he provides something.
We did not underestimate them. They were just so much better than we expected.
Wearing unbranded and cheap clothes does not mean you are poor. Remember you have a family to feed, not a community to impress.
Keep your heels head and standards high.
I will not promise to make history. But nothing is impossible.
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
It was nice you came, but it’s even nicer that you go
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 am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.