Jostein Gaarder Quotes

We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

Jostein Gaarder

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• Racism
• Crime
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• God's Chosen People

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• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

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• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
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• I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
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• In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

  

  Larry Flynt
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• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Nature
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• After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

  

  Otto Schily
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• First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Good
  • She
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• With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Work
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• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Good
  • Culture
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• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Worth
  • Strife
  • None

• I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Men
  • Women
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• McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.

  

  Fernando Alonso
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• Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

  

  Randy Schekman
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• In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

  

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• With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

  

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• There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Light
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• I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Me
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• Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • People
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• There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Ugly

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
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• We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Laugh
  • Racism
  • Crime