Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.Jostein Gaarder
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
M. H. Abrams -
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable -
One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
Daniel Boulud -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
M. J. Rose -
Every role is a new form of surrender.
Laura Dern -
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand
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We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.
Learned Hand -
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
Danny Meyer -
Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Charles Lamb -
I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.
Kirby Bliss Blanton -
I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.
Alice Englert -
In Tamil, the actors have to take care of themselves quite well and that is something I am all set to be serious about.
Keerthy Suresh
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I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.
Sean Berdy -
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane -
There aint but one truth, said John Grady. The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody's mouth.
Cormac McCarthy -
This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare -
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
Jostein Gaarder