Cees Nooteboom Quotes
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
Rachel Zoe
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I'd like to be curvier.
Cara Delevingne
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
Carlene Carter
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
Jack Vance
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
Gabriel Mann
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As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.
Patrick Kane
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
Yair Lapid
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I want people to realize that they can dream big.
Madison Pettis
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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Daniel Bernoulli
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
Al Gore
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We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to lie to them. So if you spend a lot of time with your relations, you're probably lying a lot to them.
David Chase
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I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
Lisa Tuttle
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Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
Karen Civil
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
Joel Edgerton
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Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.
Vance Law
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It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
Madeleine L'Engle
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New York City is one of the best cities in the world for walking: it's virtually impossible to get lost.
Philomena Kwao
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Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.
Nido Qubein
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As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.
Cees Nooteboom