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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward."
"We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony."
"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
"I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement."
"I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing."
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."
"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over."
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
"I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart."
"I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished."
"There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations."
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."
"If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights."
"Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it."
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."
"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
"I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion."
"I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands."
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."
"Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want."
"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA."
"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
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