Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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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.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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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.
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Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
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Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
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To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
