Dries van Noten Quotes

For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea.

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Security

• When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Finish

• I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Military
  • Animals

• I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Mysterious

• Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Science
  • Places

• I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

  

  Diego Giacometti
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Work
  • Knowing
  • Speed

• For me, a show is an event - something we work toward that focuses an idea.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Work