Pim Fortuyn Quotes
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.
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Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.
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I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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I make films about working class people.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
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The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
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What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
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'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'
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What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
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In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
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I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.
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We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.
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We are already overcrowded. There's no more room, and we must shut the borders.
