Alexander De Croo Quotes

To be clear, any abortion that takes place is one too many. But if it has to take place, then I think it should be available, and it should be available in a safe way.

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• I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Energy
  • City
  • Hard

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Film
  • Plan

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.

  

  Fat Joe
  • True
  • Basketball
  • Garden

• Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Earth
  • New York
  • Kid

• The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Wise
  • Creative
  • Generosity

• I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Problems

• Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Trust
  • Dry

• If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Anything
  • Broadway

• Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • American
  • Style

• I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Ambition
  • Partner

• 'I think I prefer to be a Bear,' said Big Bru. 'I was born a Bear, and I know a Bear's ways. So I am satisfied to live as a Bear lives.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Live

• He said that, uh, there is an allegation that you have won elections on a communal card. I said, there are so many media persons here, they are not noting, but now they've started. You see, this is the tragedy of the country. Because when I was talking about development, they were not ready to note even! Now do you understand why I love Cho?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Why

• Kids: If a bear is wearing a ranger hat, it's because he ate the ranger!

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Kids

• Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Freedom

• Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Suffering
  • Animal

• People overreact to extremism and end up in the deep freeze of tradition, judgementalism, legalism, dead orthodoxy and inaction.

  

  George Verwer
  • Tradition
  • Legalism
  • Overreact

• To be clear, any abortion that takes place is one too many. But if it has to take place, then I think it should be available, and it should be available in a safe way.

  

  Alexander De Croo