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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians."
"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches."
"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!"
"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries."
"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."
"What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself."
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
"Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her."
"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."
"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst."
"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
"Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players."
"Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands."
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
"Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
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