J. Maarten Troost Quotes
So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
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The world wants to like America.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
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Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.
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You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
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So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
