Jostein Gaarder Quotes
If just one of those people experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
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I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
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Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
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Starz has been nothing but amazing to me.
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.
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Living country is more about your values and beliefs than cowboy hats or living on a farm.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.
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If just one of those people experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.
