Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
Dan Colen -
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
Xavier Becerra -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
Maggie Carey -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
Irv Kupcinet
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Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Ban Ki-moon -
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
Walter Cronkite -
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine -
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
Yuri Milner -
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando Aloysius Battista -
I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
Sam Shepard
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The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
David O. Russell -
I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.
Elena Ferrante -
I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.
Eric Stoltz -
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
You concentrate on solving your problems or keeping the boat safe or making sure you take the best route through the storm so you don't get caught in the worst part of it and you just concentrate on coming out the other side.
Ellen MacArthur -
I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
Jostein Gaarder