Neelie Kroes Quotes
Art enriches itself by eliminating artificial barriers between people such as borders between countries.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
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A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.
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Art enriches itself by eliminating artificial barriers between people such as borders between countries.
