Wopke Hoekstra Quotes

About coronabonds or eurobonds, or whatever it is called, that’s just not prudent, it’s a solution for a problem that does not exist now.

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• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Think
  • Escape

• Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Book
  • Problem
  • Ideas

• Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Long
  • Live
  • Family

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Day

• Fear controls you.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Fear
  • You
  • Controls

• My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Age

• He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Play
  • Taught

• I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Sleep
  • Which
  • Debilitating

• I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Drama

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Nations
  • Many
  • Belonging

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

  

  Feist
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• I love my family.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Family
  • Love
  • I Love

• In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Worked
  • Adam
  • Billy

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Civilization
  • Tolerance
  • Real Test

• Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Memories

• We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mountain
  • Attraction
  • Weights

• I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • World
  • School
  • Age

• About coronabonds or eurobonds, or whatever it is called, that’s just not prudent, it’s a solution for a problem that does not exist now.

  

  Wopke Hoekstra
  • Problem
  • Exist
  • Solution