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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The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.
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Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
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Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
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I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
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I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.
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David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.
