Mark Rutte Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.
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My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.
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Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
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Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
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I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.
