Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My hunger is always there.
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I just want to do my job.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.
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I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.
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You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
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When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
