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.
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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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Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
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It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
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First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.
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I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.
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When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.
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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.
