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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I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.
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I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days
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If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.
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I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.
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Never waste a crisis.
