Jo Nesbo Quotes

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Jo Nesbo

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MeGameThinkStock MarketTurnOff

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

Jerry Falwell

WomenMenStressDoingWithout

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

Andre Rieu

MusicArtYouPlaySoundReal

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Steve Vai

LoveGuitarDamnBigBeingBig Fan

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

Steven Pinker

FadeThingsStayVisualSoundsPut

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Steven Pinker

WorldLongGroupGenocideUpSource

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

Jonathan Kozol

GreatMediocrityBe TrueFindTrue

I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

Douglas Rushkoff

TechnologyI AmPeopleChoicesDoing

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

Chiara Ferragni

PeopleLovedLookIntentionCreate

Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.

Chelsea Lankes

MusicGrowing UpGuitarGrowingUp

I think there are pros and cons to social networking, but on a social, personal level, it's just not for me.

Colin Morgan

MeNetworkingThinkPersonalLevel

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

Brandon Flowers

MePerceptionWeirdSomeoneDevil

I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

Asma Jahangir

MeFaceHouseMadeImprisonmentHad

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