Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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More Bjork Quotes
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i’m back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes ’till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.
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They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
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i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.
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If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I’m traveling,
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
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When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
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I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I’d bring some eggs.
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I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it’s really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It’s sort of a contradiction, but that’s how it works somehow.
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There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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