Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
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You've got to be in your kitchens, or it all falls apart.
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Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
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Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
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Stardust is the hardest thing to hold out for. You must make of yourself a perfect plane - something still upon which something settles - something like sugar grains on something like metal, but with none of the chill. It’s hard to explain.
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But I'm warning you, we're growing up.
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'The New York Times' is inherent in what we are, but not worn as 'what we are'; it's important and crucial to all of us, but not something that was drilled in, in any specific ways.
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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
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We are what we do.
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I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.
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Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
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In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust.
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We literally are all made out of stardust. We started from those stars; we are made of stardust. So, next time you are really depressed, look in the mirror and you can look and say, hi, I'm looking at a star here.
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The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
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My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
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There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
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Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.
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My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.
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Walked in class and my professor goes "when did you plan on telling us that you can fly"
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Of course; a nurse wouldn’t have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke’s heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
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I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.
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Yes, we too are stardust.
