Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.
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When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
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We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
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I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.
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I have a Bible near my bed.
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When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.
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My kids know there's no candy, no soda, until the weekend. Those are the days they get to indulge in their sweets. We're big on organic food. I'm not a diet guy; I don't believe in diets. I just believe in a great meal plan.
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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
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Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
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Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.
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Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!
