My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.
MagnusThe biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
MagnusMove it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.
MagnusLike a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
MagnusI learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
MagnusThere's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
MagnusBusiness is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.
MagnusAnywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brezil, Peru-- Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.
MagnusAt the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
MagnusI realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
MagnusI've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-
MagnusIt's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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