Pim Fortuyn Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.
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I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist, it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird.
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This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.
