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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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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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 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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
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When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.
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When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
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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.
