Bram van Velde Quotes
I am powerless, helpless. Each time it’s a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown.
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Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.
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I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.
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The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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It’s very nearly 1989 but it’s midnight in the Dark Ages just the thickness of a book away, the thickness of a skull away; just the turn of a page away.
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You can tell By the laugh in the dark at the sound of the bell You can tell It's the nucleus burning inside of the cell…
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The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.
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I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
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Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.
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There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about.
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Edward Albee, the premier dark playwright of the American theater, would show up at rehearsal and quote his favorite lines from 'Auntie Mame'. He would stand at the back of the theater, not facing the stage, and sort of conduct the music of his play.
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Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans.
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Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
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The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
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I am powerless, helpless. Each time it’s a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown.
