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.
Valentino Rossi -
I don't like flying. I'm a bit scared of it and don't enjoy the whole experience.
Rick Astley -
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.
Mackenzie King -
Colors were dynamite for us.
Andre Derain -
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn -
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.
Allen Iverson
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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.
Quindon Tarver -
What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.
Marlo Thomas -
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Jack Roy -
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Robert Frost -
If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.
Jim Elliot -
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.
Lennox Lewis
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If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
Thomas Hobbes -
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.
Vivienne Westwood -
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.
Vladimir Putin -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
Ian Rankin