Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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I am frequently attacked.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
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It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.
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Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.
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To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.
