Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.Jostein Gaarder
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Beau Willimon -
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel -
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
Ibrahim Rugova -
I love my sleep.
Caprice Bourret -
I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
J. J. Watt
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
Dan Quayle -
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten -
I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
Mahershala Ali -
As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
Pardis Sabeti -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
Taylor Swift -
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
Laura Marling -
Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
Natalie Dormer -
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
Damian Marley -
I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
Karin Slaughter -
If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
Tavi Gevinson -
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Yoweri Museveni -
O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.
Ephrem the Syrian -
I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!
Alicia Keys -
Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.
Jostein Gaarder