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.
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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.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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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.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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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.
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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.
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My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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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.
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I want people to realize that they can dream big.
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Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision of nature and the wild species I like to photograph.
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I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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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.
