Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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I speak the language of television.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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I honestly never really watch the Emmys.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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What can be said for a man who would allow his home to be invaded by strangers who demanded they be fed, clothed, housed and granted the rights of the first-born? What can be said for a ruling elite that permits this to be done to the nation, and who celebrate it as a milestone of moral progress?
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Looking back today over the years, we may well be proud of the work which our fellow citizens have done in India. There have, of course, been mistakes, there have been failures, but we can assert that our rule in India will stand comparison with that of any other nation which has been charged with the ruling of a people so different from themselves.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".
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The optimist regards the future as uncertain.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.
