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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I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.
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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
