Wim Crouwel Quotes
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I am a just man.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
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You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
