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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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 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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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
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I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.
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You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.
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Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.
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It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
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If I repent now will God forgive me?
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
