Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Daniel Gillies
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
Saint Bernard
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
Fareed Zakaria
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
Caitlin Moran
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
J. Tillman
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Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
Carla Gugino
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Yoko Ono
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By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
Felicity Huffman
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
Barry McGee
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The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.
Dana Perino
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Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.
Mary Ann Mobley
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.
Freya Stark
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
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Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?
Jason Blum
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Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!
Jostein Gaarder
