Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
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I always played to win.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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Could I see myself with a British boyfriend? Absolutely. The way they wear their pants is so cute. Guys don't do it in America. Their style is cute. I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.
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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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Guys often ask me, 'How can you deal with knowing your wife has sex with other men?'... I typically respond to them, 'How can you cope with not knowing who your wife has been with?
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By making the Word our final authority and making a quality decision to place our faith in God at all costs, we experience His best in every situation.
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Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
