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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

~Abraham Pais

Topics: Amsterdam Bit Crazy Did Even Forty Friends Go Insane Just Little Little Bit Miles Once Some Star Still Took Train Visit Wanted Which Why Yellow

Keywords: Abandoned


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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

~Action Bronson

Topics: Amsterdam Certain Get Inspired Like Looking Middle New New Zealand Ocean Out Paris Places Standing Write Yacht You Zealand

Keywords: Abdicate


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I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

~Adele

Topics: Amsterdam Anxiety Attacks Audiences Bear Brussels Couple Escaped Exit Fire Gotta Just Like Lot Nervous Once Out Scared Show Someone Thrown Times Touring Up

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When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

~Al Goldstein

Topics: Abandon Amsterdam Bank Dying Every Feel Florida Furniture Good House Lose New New York Piece Son Taken Underwear Very Wife York You Your

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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Amsterdam Born Boston Children Colonial Crossed Fathers First Infancy Life New New World Ocean Pilgrims Sad Something Strange Those Thought Who World Years

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I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

~Anton Corbijn

Topics: Always Am Amsterdam Big Boy Me Town Village I Am

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I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

~Anton Corbijn

Topics: America Amsterdam Countryside Daring Extreme Happening Holland Know Liberal Metropolis More New New York Only Part Representative Sense Than Think York You I Think

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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Amsterdam Declaring Drama Drama School Friends Front Going Having Kings Moment New New Year Ourselves Remember School Sitting Some Sort Theatre Titanic Wind Year I Remember

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Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.

~David Hewson

Topics: Amsterdam Curiosity Day Day And Night District Just Most Mostly Narrow Night Out Pictures Safe Sheer Streets Take Try Visitors Wander Will Windows Women Working

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Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.

~David Hewson

Topics: Amsterdam Bridge Life Like Outside Over Real See Stand You

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