Pim Fortuyn Quotes

If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the U.K., you're labeled a racist.

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• You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Home
  • Day
  • Walking

• No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Tells

• California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • California
  • Selling

• I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Person
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Run

• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • School
  • Never
  • Smart

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • World
  • Appreciate

• The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Place
  • Where
  • Blues

• Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Everyone

• Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Opinion

• I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Great
  • Find
  • Comfort

• They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Real
  • She
  • Question

• Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart’s content, the fog won’t lift.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart
  • May

• Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • May
  • Nature
  • Society

• ...in der ganzen Natur, mit dem Grad der Intelligenz die Fähigkeit zum Schmerze sich steigert, also ebenfalls erst hier ihre höchste Stufe erreicht.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

  

  John Milton
  • Grows
  • Abundant
  • Communicated

• I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Time
  • School

• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.'

  

  Joe Scarborough
  • May
  • Home
  • Wife

• If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the U.K., you're labeled a racist.

  

  Pim Fortuyn