Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes
I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I try to do my best.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.
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Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
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Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
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I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.
