Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room.
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I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.
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Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.
