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.
Quotes to Explore
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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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.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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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.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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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.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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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.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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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.
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When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.
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Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen.
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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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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.
