Quotes by dutch authors

David Alaba has a very good left foot. He's scored some good goals and free kicks. Arjen Robben

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I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn't say, 'okay I'm going to do this step and then this step' to become popular. I just created music that I loved. Armin van Buuren

I recommend everyone who DJ's to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ's in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living. Armin van Buuren

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made. Armin van Buuren

I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music. Armin van Buuren

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school. Armin van Buuren

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Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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I would rather clean than beg. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Every time I went on TV I got a threat. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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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. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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