Jostein Gaarder Quotes
To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
Jostein Gaarder
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
Dana Hill
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
Jack Schwartz
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
Gary Johnson
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
Fabrizio Moreira
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
Barbara Deming
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
Laura Linney
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I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.
Naomi Klein
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
Ted Allen
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
Carl Forti
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Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.
Al Jourgensen
1000 Homo DJs
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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
George Bernard Shaw
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By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.
Eric Balfour
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
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Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing
at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and
treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful
knowledge.
Wilford Woodruff
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To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
Jostein Gaarder
