Jostein Gaarder Quotes
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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I don't do my own Instagram.
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It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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When I was in high school and first starting to drive by myself, I listened to Wu Tang in the car, and I recognized their soul and R&B roots.
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In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the 'found subject' leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead.
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The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
