Cees Nooteboom Quotes
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
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The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
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There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu.
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I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.
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For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.
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The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.
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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
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We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.
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I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school
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‘You of all people should know that everything in this world must be paid for, whether in gold, time, or blood.’
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I still want to kiss you. To feel the life in you seize on the life in me. Raw and fresh and new.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
