Ian Buruma Quotes

The fact that both killers arrived on bikes added a peculiarly Dutch flavor to their murders.

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• Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their dream as background dancers on a show called Shake It Up Chicago. They have to navigate life as young teens going to school and dancing on the show.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Danger
  • Disease
  • Scared

• To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Public
  • London
  • Bishop

• It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Stupid
  • Afraid

• Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Develop
  • Pleasures
  • Photographs

• I am a girl without game. I'm not interested in games. I think that, if you are someone who playing hard to get comes naturally to, go with God and do that.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • God
  • Game
  • Girl

• You are holy, great and mighty, the moon and the stars DECLARE who You are...I'm so unworthy, but still You love me, forever my heart will sing of how great You are!

  

  Phil Wickham
  • Heart
  • Forever
  • Moon

• Amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Move
  • Addiction
  • Running Away

• The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

  

  Milton Sapirstein
  • Marriage
  • Fiction
  • Ideals

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Home
  • Lost
  • Deeds

• Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Book
  • America

• ... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.
  • Government
  • Suing

• I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter.

  

  George Chuvalo
  • Fighting
  • Potential
  • Opponents

• God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Joy
  • Devil
  • Commandments

• I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Necessarily

• Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Death
  • Sometimes
  • Values

• The fact that both killers arrived on bikes added a peculiarly Dutch flavor to their murders.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Killers
  • Murders
  • Bikes