Doutzen Kroes Quotes
I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.
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I love 'Downton Abbey.'
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.
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I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.
