Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
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I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.
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The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.
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Colors were dynamite for us.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
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I was 12, about to turn 13. [Laura Ziffren] pretty much knew she wanted to use me, so I just had to go and do the proper protocol and audition.
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What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.
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When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with.
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
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My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.
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Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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We can't ask for more. It's a lot of fun.
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The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and has returned him to the ancestral Germanic values of honor, loyalty and courage.
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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
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There is no order of things except in the human mind.
