Cees Nooteboom Quotes
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.
Cees Nooteboom
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
Jack Ma
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
Irrfan Khan
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
Wen Jiabao
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
Laura Marling
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
Jackie Jackson
The Jacksons
I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
Kapil Sharma
Materiam superabat opus
Ovid
In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.
Walter Scott
The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
P. D. James
Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market;Knowledge needful for all, yet cannot be had for the asking.
Arthur Hugh Clough
If I'm at home, I get up around 7:30. If I have time, I like to do some exercise. My current favourite is 'hot' yoga. If I'm filming, I will go to the office or set, and then take meetings.
Alison Owen
That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.
Elizabeth Debicki
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
Maya Angelou
Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
Han Suyin
I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
Mary Ellen Mark
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.
Cees Nooteboom
