Dries van Noten Quotes
You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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'If you are with God in truth and faith, whatever comes as a blessing or trial will be what God allows. If you are called by God, from beginning to the end, your journey has been documented. Nothing outside your documentary will happen without God’s knowledge.'
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The themes and ideas embedded in 'Into the Woods' always spoke to me.
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Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
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For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.
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My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
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You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.
