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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.

Bjork

There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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Body Half Mind
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
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Coward Something Stand
I knew if certain people recommended something, it would be good. There’s always going to be those people. It just depends on what they’re called: curators or radio jockeys or bloggers.
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Blogger Depend Jockey Recommended Something
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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Communicate Easily People Scare Self
If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot – they’re the glue between a lot of things.
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Everybody Friend Glue Technology
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
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Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
I love England. It’s no coincidence it’s the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
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Composition Country Firsts Iceland
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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Design Horrible Sound Telephone
I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.
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Easy Ipads Powered Wind
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Age Feminist Maybe Old
I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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Appreciate Chemistry Friend Growing People
I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
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Evening Morning Up Wake
People that complete other people’s vision are understated.
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People Understated Vision
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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Contradiction Country Everywhere Relationship
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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Awards Eggs Input
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough.
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Girl Guy Imagination Support
I think after Iceland’s independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took one generation to sort of get over that. I’m second generation.
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Generation Parent Strong Thinking
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!’
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Labels Lemurs Sharks
Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn’t done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It’s that backwards.
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Done Educate People Thinking Year
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
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Different Together Way
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places.
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Country Iceland Place War
It’s nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!
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Big Nice Quiet
I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Albums Narcissistic Three
I mean, I’ve never been thinking that if you’re a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you’ve got a choice. If you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files.
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Fan Mean Pirate Somebody Thinking
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
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Beard Hermits Style
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Music Paper People Something

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