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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...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
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You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
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I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.
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As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.
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I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, it's what I'll forget that matters.
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
