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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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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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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So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.
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It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis -- far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.
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I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I want guys that when you’re playing tag are never it.
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
