Stromae (Paul Van Haver) Quotes

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

Stromae

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• The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Good Thing
  • Storage

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Great
  • Father
  • Game

• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Talent
  • Genius

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Travel
  • Wonderful
  • Everyone

• My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Job
  • Tomorrow
  • Performance

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?

  

  Kage Baker

• It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Time
  • Education
  • Present

• 'Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Stop

• I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Fun
  • Future
  • Past

• Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Life

• I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.

  

  Kathleen Edwards

• We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Add

• I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Family

• I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Movie
  • Day

• There are many creeds but only one faith. Creeds may change, develop, and grow flat, while the substance of faith remains the same in all ages. The overgrowth of creed may bring about the disintegration of that substance. The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • May
  • Faith

• I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

  

  Stromae
  • Trying
  • Normal
  • Stay