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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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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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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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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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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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
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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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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level.
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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.
