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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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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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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My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.
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I dream for a living.
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
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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.
