Mark Rutte Quotes

I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Man

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Successful
  • Down
  • Limits

• I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • High
  • Knowledge

• Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Country
  • Money
  • Support

• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Means
  • Still

• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Model
  • Islam
  • Follow

• I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Control
  • Collaborate
  • Loyalists

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Powerful
  • Marriage
  • Tools

• The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Together
  • Dream

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Country
  • Education
  • Brain

• When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Media
  • Talk
  • Social Media

• There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Wife

• Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Want
  • Change
  • Photography

• I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do get on top of me sometimes - so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Personality

• My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Up
  • Perfect

• America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Should
  • Citizens

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • City
  • Start
  • New York

• I am from the Netherlands, so that means we like to stick to the rules, and we like to stick to the deal, and we like countries to do what they have promised.

  

  Mark Rutte