Mark Rutte Quotes
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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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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In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.
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But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I’m not afraid to say 'I love you'.
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The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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Never waste a crisis.
