Dries van Noten Quotes
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler -
I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
Damon Galgut -
They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
J. D. Salinger -
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Karl Jaspers -
My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
Yuliya Snigir -
All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
Hannah Simone
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
Karen Elson -
When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
Zach Anner -
I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
Sam Phillips -
Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
J. B. Pritzker -
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth -
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
Val Kilmer -
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
Mahesh Babu -
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
Vanessa Paradis -
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright -
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
Abbas Kiarostami
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I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Sam Brownback -
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
Angelina Jolie -
No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.
Neil Jordan -
I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.
Ehud Olmert -
I try to be as independent as possible.
Dries van Noten