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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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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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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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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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.
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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.
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A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.
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You are not in control of your mind-because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.
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My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.
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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.
