Jostein Gaarder Quotes
The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.
Jostein Gaarder
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
Nathan Fillion
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
Dana Hill
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton Gellman
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
Oprah Winfrey
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
Ramez Naam
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
Kate Moss
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
Randall Park
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
Uday Kiran
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
