Simon van der Meer Quotes
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.!
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
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My father came here from Mexico.
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I wouldn't say I'm fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don't like it when people say that I'm particularly following the same line or that I'm only interested in family dramas. I'm interested in human relationships. The most intimate, the most delicate, and the most intriguing relationships are those within a family.
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My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
