Arjen Anthony Lucassen Quotes
But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five people in the band, um, you've got no keyboards... you're limited. And I wanted... to go over-the-top, you know. Literally. I wanted to make an album that people would either hate or love.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.
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Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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But I always wanted to do a theatrical stuff. But when you're in a metal band of course you're limited because five people in the band, um, you've got no keyboards... you're limited. And I wanted... to go over-the-top, you know. Literally. I wanted to make an album that people would either hate or love.
