Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
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If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
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Does what you think of you determine your worth?
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We think it necessary that an active and meaningful dialogue on this topic be resumed with the new U.S. administration as soon as possible
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Sometimes I'm crotchety, angry, curmudgeonly - you know, I do have that side. I don't always show it.
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I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.
