Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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• Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Understanding

• I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Art
  • Internet

• I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

  

  Randy Moss
  • Life
  • Family
  • Daughter

• I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Working

• My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Present

• Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Change

• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Interesting
  • Human
  • Living

• I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • American
  • Earth

• If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Huge

• I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Now

• The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Music
  • Comedy

• People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Grief
  • Judging

• It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Support
  • Nice
  • Radio

• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • War

• Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity. Faith means negligence, serfdom, insincerity and deception. The man who never doubts never thinks. He is like a straw in the wind or a waif on the sea. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism. The stupidity of the people, says Whitman, is always inviting the insolence of power.

  

  George William Foote
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• Sure-hoofed is my steed in the day of battle:The high sprigs of alder are on thy hand:Bran by the branch thou bearestHas Amathaon the good prevailed.

  

  Taliesin
  • Good
  • High
  • Hand

• My body is a baby machine.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Baby

• She wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • She
  • Sense

• Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme