Jo Nesbo Quotes

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Jo Nesbo

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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

Jim Harrison

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It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.

Jillian Michaels

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I love Canada. The natural environment here is so inspiring. It never ceases to make me feel grounded and calm and to help put things in perspective. And I love Canadians. A lot.

Jodi Balfour

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It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

John Hurt

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I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

Steffi Graf

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When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.

Joshua Bell

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I will say that Vertigo is an area of great interest to me. It is even less well tapped than other parts of DC, and could potentially offer amazing stories for our future television video game, digital and consumer products businesses.

Diane Nelson

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I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

Chris Gethard

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You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

Witold Gombrowicz

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India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

Pratibha Patil

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Hyperloop One has accomplished what no one has done before by successfully testing the first full scale Hyperloop system. By achieving full vacuum, we essentially invented our own sky in a tube, as if you're flying at 200,000 feet in the air.

Shervin Pishevar

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

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