"The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there."

"I feel pride in being a Greenlander."

"I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics."

"Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact."

"Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education."

"Marrying into money was not a good thing for me."

"After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway."

"The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff."