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
  • Life
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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'd like to be curvier.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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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
  • People
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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
  • Knowledge
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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

• 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
  • Time

• I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

  

  Lisa Tuttle
  • Up
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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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• Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
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• I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

  

  Christina Ricci

• I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

  

  Bill Murray
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• In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

  Gail Devers
  • Life
  • Know
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• I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
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• Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • Life
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• There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

  

  Gerald Massey
  • World
  • Kindness
  • Dearth

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Fashion