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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[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.
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The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
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We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
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Yes, we too are stardust.
