Dries van Noten Quotes

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Dries van Noten

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Political
  • Balance

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Weakness
  • Confession

• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Write
  • Walk

• Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Expression

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Now

• My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Live
  • Pictures
  • Tools

• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Communist
  • Horizon

• No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Always
  • Person
  • Matter

• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Like
  • Italian
  • Warm

• I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Singing

• Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Free
  • Imagination

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Failure

• For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Creativity