Cees Nooteboom Quotes
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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
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Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
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One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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And in that town a dog was found,As many dogs there be,Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,And curs of low degree.
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I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.
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My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.
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With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.
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Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
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I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.
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Life is a fight. Don’t let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you.
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I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.
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Wrong no man by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
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For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
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Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.
