John de Mol, Jr. Quotes
'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.
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I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.
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Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
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'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.
