Jostein Gaarder Quotes
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
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But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
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I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.
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I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
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I guess I'm a born ham.
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'What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?'
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I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?' but I really can't! It's my form of therapy.
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I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
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Use the light to return to clarity.
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I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
