Pim Fortuyn Quotes
The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
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Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
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If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
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I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
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The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.
