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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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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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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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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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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Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
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Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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.
