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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Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn’t think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out—like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering.
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Never put business before family.
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I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.
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Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
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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.
