Simon Van Booy Quotes
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
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Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
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I think I'm a focus for international attention.
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We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!
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You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.
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I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
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Acts of one-sided diplomacy on the part of the Bush administration.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
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Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.
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Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
