Mark Rutte Quotes
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
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No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
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I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good, I'm not going to say 'I'm just going to do this' or 'I have to do one of everything.' I'm not thinking like that.
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I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
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I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.
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I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.
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I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
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Never waste a crisis.
