Jostein Gaarder Quotes
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I was an expert horseman.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.
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Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.
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We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.
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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
