Johan Huizinga Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I try to lead by example.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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Responsive governments committed to improving the broader trade facilitation and business environment can help companies of all sizes by improving infrastructure: roads, transportation, ports, information and communication technology, and electricity.
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I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
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My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
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You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
