Janne Teller quotes
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“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
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“Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.”
-- Janne TellerSource : Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
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“Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?”
-- Janne TellerSource : Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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“We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.”
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“The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.”
-- Janne Teller
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.”
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Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and lyrics: a book of verses”, p.28
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“I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”
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“When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.”
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“I was born in India - but never really lived there.”
Source : "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.
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“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”
Source : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.
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“I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.”
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