Holland Quotes

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren`t interested in the sex lives of their players. We don`t hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

"I love the inpatience of New York... You ever had somebody not-ask you for directions, but demand them? You`re just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy`s like, `HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!` ...You know like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you`re wasting HIS time. `Let`s go buddy! Holland tunnel!` `...Uh..I-I was just going to the store... I didn`t realize it was my shift. Well, let`s see... the Holland Tunnel is in my ass... alright?"

Robin is an amazing talent. Technically, he is the best in Holland.

I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

As a director, my goal is to be completely open. Just look at how I portray sex in my films. They`re considered shocking and obscene because I like to carefully examine human sexuality. It has to be realistic. I really like documentaries, therefore, reality is important to me when I do fiction. It is often related to my own life, my Dutch background. The art scene in Holland has always attempted to be realistic. The Dutch painters of 400 years ago were meticulously realistic. The example I always like to use is a marvelous painting by Hieronymus Bosch titled "The Prodigal Son". It is a painting of a brothel, and in the corner is a man pissing against a wall. You would never, never find something like that in an Italian, French or English painting of that epoch. The Dutch have always been more scientific, interested in detail; certainly less idealistic and more realistic. The sex scenes in Vierde man, De (1983) ("The Fourth Man") and Turks fruit (1973) {"Turkish Delight"] were based on real experiences I had or a friend had. It`s very personal. Of course, I must admit that I love to shock audiences.

In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.

I think it`s pretty cutting edge. San Bernardino County in California visited us about it. I have had calls from Holland and South Africa.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

He is employed by the Holland Group, which provides staffing for our substitute teachers, ... He apparently used some inappropriate language and called a student `heathen.`

It was the second time he had done something like that, and Holland decided he can`t be a substitute any more. They can find something else for him to do, but not that.

Any time an adult is in a teaching role, they`re held to a higher standard. Obviously, Holland thought that wasn`t an appropriate way for one of their employees to be acting in school.

On what foreign press wants to know: I think they`re all waiting on an crazy story about Paul (Verhoeven), that he exploded once or something, but I keep telling them he`s a sweet man so I keep letting them down. And what it`s like to be naked on a set. They all think that`s very exciting I just response that in Holland it`s weird not to be naked on a set so we`re all used to it.

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it`s a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn`t do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.

A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future.