Cees Nooteboom Quotes
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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My music lives because of real players.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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P. 27.
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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.
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I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
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The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
