Jan Peter Balkenende Quotes

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

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• I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

  Earl Weaver
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• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
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• While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
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• I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Done
  • Wish
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• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Writing
  • Constitution
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• I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • May
  • Team

• Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Quality
  • Human
  • Creativity

• I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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  • Writing
  • Myself

• I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  

  Taiye Selasi
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  • Ambition
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• Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

  

  Bob Brown

• My whole family has been such a great support, and they're the ones who have kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today.

  

  David Archuleta
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  • Family
  • Today

• We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Know
  • Challenges
  • Big

• Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

  

  John Buchan
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  • Organization

• I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Money
  • Space
  • Passion

• Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

  

  Jan Peter Balkenende
  • Great
  • Society
  • Religious