Dries van Noten Quotes
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.
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When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.
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I want to become a very good writer.
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He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
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Change is not always bad. Change can be good.
