Jostein Gaarder Quotes

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
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  • Blessings

• 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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• I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Win

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Play
  • Place

• I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Meditation
  • Japa

• I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Money

• For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Truth
  • True

• You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

  

  Ursula Nordstrom
  • Artist
  • Creative
  • Chaos

• When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Google

• Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Good
  • Recognizing
  • Cleveland

• When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Bed
  • Coward
  • Flesh

• I can't say that there are "things" that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there's a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them at certain moment.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Game
  • Thoughts
  • Alive

• There are probably already too many people on the planet.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • People
  • Planet
  • Many

• Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Help
  • Emotions
  • Kick Up

• We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Day
  • Hand
  • Always

• There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
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  • Fall In Love
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