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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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.
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We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.
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When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.
