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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Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.
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The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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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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Yes, we too are stardust.
