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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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 don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
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I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.
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If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.
