Pim Fortuyn Quotes
I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
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Had it been us staging the Games, I don't think we would necessarily have done the switcheroo with the girl with the braces
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The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
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I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.
