Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
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Stat magni nominis umbra.
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I've aged, but grown up? No.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
