Simon Van Booy Quotes
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.
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I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.
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I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
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I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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The pace of change means that relationship is more important than ever before.
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Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain kind of minutia, that I think, if you did not have that privilege, would never be bothersome. When people are worried about whether "local" means 100 miles, or 50 miles, or 10 miles from a grocery store, I just think, "Wow. What a privilege it is to have that as a major concern in your life." As opposed to, "Can we afford food tonight?" Sometimes I'm just shocked at what becomes concerning in these kind of communities.
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Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
