Geert Groote Quotes
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
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I don't have a favourite designer. If I like the piece, I don't really care if it's any particular brand - I'll buy!
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I don't calculate my net worth.
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.
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I'm very outgoing and social.
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A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.
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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.
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The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
