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 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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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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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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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.
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You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives you in the United States. I can't deny that the success I've had in the United States or the success that 'Pulling Strings' was due to my work in Latin America.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.
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It is disconcerting that no one associated with the Guild has yet been able to provide a detailed accounting or basis for these fees, despite the fact that they come directly from dues and fees paid by Guild members, who expect the Guild's leadership and management to be dedicated to furthering the members' health and welfare.
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The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
