Jostein Gaarder Quotes

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Jostein Gaarder

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My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

Angie Thomas

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What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

Anita Hill

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In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

Jean Pigozzi

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It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

John Requa

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I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.

Tony Evans

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I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

Mike Huckabee

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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Judy Holliday

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I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.

Jools Holland

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I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

Denis Leary

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No hidden talents, but I have a lot of hobbies. Acrylic painting - I got a whole set, and I light candles at night and sit there and paint and look out on Lake Michigan.

Christen Press

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To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

Brendon Burchard

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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Anton Chekhov

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