Stromae (Paul Van Haver) Quotes
Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
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'Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.'
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We have to evolve … I will make sure we keep what we’re good at. We’re renowned for our physicality. We have to be a bit smarter with where we want to use our physicality.
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I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.
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I wasn't unpopular. I didn't have any trouble getting girls.
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Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.
