Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
Karel Reisz
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
Lamar Odom
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
Rainn Wilson
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
Victoria Pratt
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Narendra Modi
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
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It's not going to interfere with the film. I heal miraculously. I've been in an auto accident and another fire. They thought I'd need plastic surgery, but I haven't a scar...No, I don't think I'm accident prone, but it's strange.
Edie Sedgwick
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To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
Valerie Solanas
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Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore - but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
Omar Khayyam
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I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.
Maria Bamford
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I don’t put myself on a pedestal, I put the artist on the pedestal. I’m servicing the artist. I want to give you an experience. I want you to walk around and say “I feel happy doing art for a living.” No matter what the ups and down, my job is to make the artists be the best they want to be.
Terrace Martin
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Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
Kevin J. Anderson
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Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
Lao Tzu
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Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.
John Joseph Lydon
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The universe is a great mystery.
Jostein Gaarder
