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.

Jostein Gaarder

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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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  • Time
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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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  • Funny
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• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  

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  • Home
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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?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
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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.

  

  Manish Dayal
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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.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
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• Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

  

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  • Deputy
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Proud
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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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  • God
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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.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Good

• I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • Hand

• Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.

  

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• There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

  

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• On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

  

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  • Time
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• My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

  

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  • Wanted
  • Prize
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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

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  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Parents
  • Discipline
  • Difficulty

• No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, … and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour’s blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Blue

• When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Children
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Friend
  • Understanding
  • Cost