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 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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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.
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That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.
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At my age, all my friends, doctors, and attorneys are dead. The good thing about this is that there's no one left who can refute my stories.
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I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.
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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
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You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.
