Jostein Gaarder Quotes

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

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• I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Ideas
  • Try
  • Handle

• Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • World
  • Succeed
  • Youth

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Million
  • Diabetes
  • Latino

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Name

• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
  • Important
  • Hope

• Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Free

• There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Characters
  • Fingers

• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Friends
  • Audience
  • Group

• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Child

• I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creation

• I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Myself

• The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Great
  • Love
  • Man

• I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines – of course, I do love a good story.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Love

• When I go back to Egypt, I call my friend from the airport to buy kushari for us to eat in the car. I pull my hoodie over my head, jump into the car, and then I'm eating it straight away.

  

  Mohamed Salah
  • Friend
  • Eating
  • Egypt

• I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
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