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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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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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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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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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.
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It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.
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This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.
