Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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I'm big on research.
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The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
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I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.
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When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.
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Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace,The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,The indifferent judge between the high and low.
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Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
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The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...
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Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space.
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I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
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No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.
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I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.
