Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
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Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.
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People say money is not the key to happiness, but I've always figured if you have enough money you can get a key made.
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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
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I do a mean mouth trumpet.
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I laugh a lot, especially between shots, and it's tough for me to control. There have been so many instances where my director had to request me to stop laughing and come into the mood of the scene.
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Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.
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Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.
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I'm just tryna make real music. I don't want to force the people to follow me.
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Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
