John de Mol, Jr. Quotes
Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I'm not a big sports fan.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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Thought makes reality.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
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The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
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Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
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You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
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'Why are you always so full of answers?''Because life’s so full of questions.'
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Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.
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That scrawny cry - It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.
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When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.
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For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.
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I'm a black man from the South. I like my food!
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The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.
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Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.
