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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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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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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I have no desire to carry a movie.
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Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.
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Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
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In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
