Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
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I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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What people mean by consultation is an imitation of what they see in America; pressure groups and lobby groups..It's an unthinking adoption of Western practices of development without any pruning and modification to suit our circumstances.
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And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the sceneHe's got a daytime job, he's doing alright.He can play the honky tonk like anything,Saving it up for Friday night.With the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing.
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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
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I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.
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I was at Woodstock. In the mud.
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I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.
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When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
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I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
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I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
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I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
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Mobility in India is going to be different from the West. In America, people would look at an autorickshaw and say, 'This is a passing thing.' But in India, you know it will stay because it is fast and convenient.
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Some are more equal than others.
