Bram van Velde Quotes
To be nothing. Just nothing. It’s a frightening experience. You have to let go of everything.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.
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I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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'We are never quits with those who oblige us,' was Dantes' reply; 'for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.'
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I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.
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With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
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I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.
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To be nothing. Just nothing. It’s a frightening experience. You have to let go of everything.
