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 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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I look formidable.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.
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I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.
