James Van Der Beek Quotes

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

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• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Will

• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Tradition
  • Direction

• In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Live
  • Want
  • Wall

• When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• I love the French horn.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Love
  • I Love
  • French

• I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Always

• When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • School
  • High
  • City

• I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Never
  • Look
  • Watch

• As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Health
  • Value

• You need to have time to really hear God.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Time
  • God
  • Need

• I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Believe
  • Facts
  • I Believe

• Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Truth
  • Past

• It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • May
  • Experience
  • Angry

• He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Moving
  • Broken

• According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Truth

• Nvidia, fuck you!

  

  Linus Torvalds

• I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.

  

  Brande Roderick
  • Prom

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • People
  • Art
  • Value

• I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

  

  James Van Der Beek