Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years, I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children - they simply forget how much it hurts.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.
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Kids will tease you for just about anything.
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Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.
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A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.
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It's only paranoia," whispered the Wodensfang, "If things aren't out to get you...
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Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.
