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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The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
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When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.
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Starz has been nothing but amazing to me.
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We said that with initial LIGO, detections would be possible, and with Advanced LIGO, detections would be probable.
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I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.
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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.
