Paul Verhoeven Quotes
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.Paul Verhoeven
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
Victor Ponta -
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
Viggo Mortensen -
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
D. B. Sweeney -
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan -
I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
Victoria Justice -
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma -
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
Sam Graves -
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
Orville Redenbacher
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
Nas -
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
J. D. Vance -
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you never give up, you'll be successful.
Dan O'Brien -
Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Gary Hamel
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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
Dan Ariely -
I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.
Kim Yuna -
...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
Bhagat Singh -
What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
Antonio Machado -
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
David G. Hartwell -
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.
Paul Verhoeven