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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I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.
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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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A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go?
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There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.
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Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
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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.
