Stromae (Paul Van Haver) Quotes

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Man
  • Law
  • Couple

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Year
  • Plants

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • House
  • Sometimes

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Mistake
  • Sexist
  • Intentional

• I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Government
  • Promise

• I'm always late.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Always
  • Late

• We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Person
  • Hearts
  • Empty

• The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Work
  • Understanding

• He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Prejudices

• What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Love
  • Violence
  • Opera

• Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Beach

• Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.

  

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  • Work
  • Live

• You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Society
  • Effort
  • inspirational

• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Writer
  • Fiction
  • Genre

• Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • History
  • Wisdom

• I'm just part of the people.

  

  Stromae
  • People
  • Part