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Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.
~ Simon van der Meer
Able
Amateur
Approach
Asset
Been
Cannot
Certain
Certain Extent
Combined
Contributions
Experience
Extent
Feeling
Field
Help
Make
Much
Nevertheless
Original
Physics
Practical
Slightly
Times
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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.
~ Simon van der Meer
Commissioned
Construction
Group
Improved
Increase
Magnitude
Now
Order
Preparing
Rate
Ring
Second
Since
Then
Worked
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Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
~ Simon van der Meer
Able
Astonishing
Children
Conditions
Education
Fact
Give
Good
Good Education
Highly
In Fact
Learning
Made
Parents
Prized
Sacrifices
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As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Actor
Advantage
Being
Director
Editor
Film
Other
Painter
Percent
Responsible
Solitary
You
Yourself
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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!
~ Sylvia Kristel
Back
Be True
Certainly
Complete
Complete Freedom
Convinced
Could
Exist
Freedom
Good
Jealousy
Life
Like
Me
Relationship
Then
Think
Thought
Too
True
Woman
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I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Always
Be Careful
Because
Careful
Improvement
Life
Proud
Room
Too
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I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Accepted
Actor
Bimbo
Bomb
Definitely
Feel
Felt
Fully
Learned
Like
Me
Movie
Much
Other
Regular
Sex
Some
Treat
World
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I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Acting
Agents
Amsterdam
Angeles
Both
Call
Days
Doing
End
France
Keep
Los
Los Angeles
Love
Painting
Parts
Still
Suggest
Until
Who
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I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.
~ Sylvia Kristel
About
Glad
Imagine
Life
Passion
Passionate
Something
Very
Without
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Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Always
Ashamed
Box
Course
Difficult
Important
Important Work
Like
Most
Nothing
Office
Success
Top
Will
Work
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The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.
~ Sylvia Kristel
AIDS
Careful
Character
Could
Example
Exist
Experiment
Film
For Example
Golden
Like
Made
More
Much
Now
People
Risking
Think
Time
Today
Without
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The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Also
Elegance
Innocence
Only
Portray
Serenity
The Only Thing
Thing
Trying
Vulnerability
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When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Because
Delicate
Films
Generation
Guess
Improved
Lovemaking
Mention
Might
New
New Generation
People
Sweet
Threatening
Very
Watches
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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Acceleration
Any
Architectural
Architecture
Between
Continuing
Culture
Five
Four
Increasingly
Least
Project
Takes
Years
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But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
~ Rem Koolhaas
About
Become
Category
Difficult
Getting
More
More And More
Now
Ornament
Political
Serious
Sustainability
Think
Way
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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Because
Competitions
Designs
Feature
Green
Increasingly
Literally
Small
Somewhere
Windmill
Winning
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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.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Battery
Beautiful
Building
Cheap
Contradictory
Definitely
Demands
Each
Fast
Forever
Incredible
Lasts
Operate
Perhaps
Person
Seemingly
Times
Very
Yes
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Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Architecture
Been
Beginning
Drivers
Escape
Ghetto
Has-Been
Major
Very
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I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Admit
Argue
Certain
Certain Things
Feel
I Think
Important
Instinctive
Intellectual
Justify
Kind
Level
Longer
More
Much
Need
Others
Rational
Really
Things
Think
Willing
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I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
~ Rem Koolhaas
About
Abstraction
Architectural
Defining
Disciplines
Ends
Many
Now
Organizational
Other
Play
Profession
Programs
Role
Say
Structure
Terms
Thinking
Those
Well
Where
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