Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
Maddie Ziegler -
I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
Kapil Sharma -
I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
Natalie Cole -
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory -
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama -
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver -
I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
Usain Bolt -
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
Rachel Joyce -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke -
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
Olga Korbut -
I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
Bear Grylls -
Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
Hans Frank -
Believe in the holy contour of life
Jack Kerouac -
She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
Octavia E. Butler -
A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.
Patrice O'Neal -
There ain't a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.
Bruce Springsteen
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There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you,so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own,and you go home and you cry and you want to die
Morrissey The Smiths -
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
Richard Adams -
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
Bruno Bauer -
Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
Buzz Aldrin -
When I observe myself and find that I am generating anger, ill will, or animosity, I realize that I am the first victim of the hatred or animosity I am generating within myself. Only afterwards do I start harming others. And if I am free from these negativities, nature or God Almighty starts rewarding me: I feel so peaceful.
S. N. Goenka -
For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him.
Jostein Gaarder