Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
Xavier Becerra -
My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
Eddie Marsan -
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
Walter Kirn -
I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
Barry Sternlicht -
I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
Jack McDevitt
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Gary Player -
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom -
Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
Warren Moon -
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
Karin Slaughter -
The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
Jack Valenti -
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
Orson Scott Card -
Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
Eminem -
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel -
Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!
Adriana Lima -
What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.
Donna Reed
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I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then whether it's badminton in the Czech Republic, snail pushing or mole hopping, I'm hooked.
Andrew Buchan -
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?
Denise Mina -
I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
Kenneth Clarke -
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Jeane Kirkpatrick -
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
Jostein Gaarder