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
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• 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
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• 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
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• 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
  • You
  • Rest
  • United States

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Victory
  • Performance
  • Debate

• I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feeling
  • Anymore
  • Kansas

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• I like to stay home with my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Good
  • Real
  • You

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Development

• I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Discipline

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• 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
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Lost

• Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Think
  • Action
  • First

• Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Look
  • Orange

• In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • American
  • Patriotic
  • Citizen

• Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me of all the fun and craziness and fake drama that trained me for this profession. It's hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these idiotsand remember I'm one of them. If you have a child, make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom- anywhere.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Wonder
  • Learn
  • Forget