Carice van Houten Quotes
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I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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I look formidable.
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The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.
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When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.
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I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
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If your money lost on the way to the poor, then for this, before God, will answer the one who did it …
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I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.
