John de Mol, Jr. Quotes
In Holland, every Monday evening my creative team meets to discuss fresh new ideas. We try to look at what's happening in the world. Are there trends? Are there new developments we should be aware of? And regularly we heard that people are uncertain about the future. People are sick and tired of the rules and regulations.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.
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It seemed proper indeed to crowd the pages with children, for in real life they run all over; the world is covered thickly with the prints of their little footsteps, though, as a rule, books written for grown-up people are kept almost clear of them.
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It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!
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I've been in relationships in the past where communication wasn't great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other.
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In Holland, every Monday evening my creative team meets to discuss fresh new ideas. We try to look at what's happening in the world. Are there trends? Are there new developments we should be aware of? And regularly we heard that people are uncertain about the future. People are sick and tired of the rules and regulations.
