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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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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'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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All this wealth excludes but one evil,-poverty.
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My patriotism is subservient to my religion. I cling to India like a child to its mother’s breast, because I feel that she gives me the spiritual nourishment I need. She has the environment that responds to my highest aspiration.
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But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.
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Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.
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We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
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You can be an idiot and survive because you just go to McDonalds for your food, and you go to work and do some sort of inane job, which is nobody taking any responsibility - it's always up the line - and then you watch the Super Bowl, and that's it. But in the old days, you really had to know how your world works. You don't need that anymore.
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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'.
