Jostein Gaarder Quotes
If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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That's painful always to lose.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?
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It's tough, because if you lose, you obviously lose ground, and if you win, you stay there. We just have to keep winning games and hope teams start getting in trouble.
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If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.
