Sylvie Meis (Sylvie Françoise Meis) Quotes
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.
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As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
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La confesión de uno humilla a todos.
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From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
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I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.
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As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.
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Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period.
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.
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Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don't fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.
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Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
