Jostein Gaarder Quotes
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.
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It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.
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This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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You got to realize there will be huge Elvis fans out there who'll be really critical, and I'm sure I'm my worst critic, but to get to do my own interpretation of Elvis and do it on a platform like this is really cool.
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For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
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There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.
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I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.
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He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.
