Jostein Gaarder Quotes
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
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Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
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'They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the Left, and we're not going to take it anymore.' 5
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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'When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.'
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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When you come to a place like Old Trafford, you have to defend, and the system is in place for perfectly good reasons.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.
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She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.
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Alone, adj. In bad company.
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To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.
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But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
