Jean-Claude Van Damme Quotes

My time of martial arts was traditional.

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• There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Morning

• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
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  • Shine

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
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• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
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  • Entrepreneur

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
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  • Kids

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
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  • Writer

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
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• How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
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• I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Started

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• Aubrey Plaza is absolutely amazing.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Amazing

• I think everything happens organically. You mine for clues. It's all immersive, and stuff you can use comes out of that immersion. I don't really like to wear wigs in movies because I like to look like the character all the time.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Time
  • Character

• I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

  

  Louise Penny

• Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,' Cause brothers been popping that game all day.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Game
  • Hair
  • Brother

• While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Health
  • Habit
  • Policy

• My time of martial arts was traditional.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
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