Etty Hillesum Quotes
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
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The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
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It would be childish to think that the Stalin bureaucracy can be removed by means of a Party or Soviet Congress. Normal, constitutional means are no longer available for the removal of the ruling clique ... They can be compelled to hand over power to the Proletarian vanguard only by FORCE.
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Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.
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The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
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I don't do husbands. I don't do children.
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I have a personality type, but it's not like I'm like, 'Oh yeah, short and brunette. That's what I like. All the time.'
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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
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Anyone can write your own life story.
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Playing in the NHL, it's a great job, it's a great life to live, and we just want to have the opportunity to do that. That's going to come from our hard work and dedication to the sport. As far as being black players in the league, obviously it's great.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
