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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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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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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Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
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I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
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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.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.
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For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.
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The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.
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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.
