Etsko Schuitema Quotes
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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I think writers are born, not made.
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Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
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Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.
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My father passed me the concept that vicuna was something very special, very expensive. So it was a question of pride. I didn't want anybody else in the world to be touching vicuna before us.
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The world we experience is a reflection of the register of our internal dialogue.
