Jostein Gaarder Quotes
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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Artists need to express.
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If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.
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...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.