Johan Huizinga Quotes
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.
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Culture means control over nature.
