Bram van Velde Quotes

It is true that other people can help you, and to lasting effect.. .If I hadn't had Beckett in 1940, I'm not sure I could have stood it. I am really not sure.. .At that time he he was driven by an extremely aggressive and fiery Irish spirit. That has lessened as time has gone on.. .I don't know anywhere in modern art any more faithful or more impressive picture of contemporary humanity than the one he offers us in 'The Unamable'.

Bram van Velde

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• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
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• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
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• I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
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• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
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• Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

  

  Zhang Xin
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• The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.

  

  C. V. Raman
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• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
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• I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

  

  Jamila Woods
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• I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.

  

  Jimmy Smits
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• The main thing is, wherever I play, I enjoy it and help the team.

  

  Anthony Martial
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• Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.

  

  Eli Broad
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• What's important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push this boys'-club, locker-room mentality out the door.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
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• If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that.

  

  Yance Ford
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• I'm using my platform to help out a little bit, you know. It's only right.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
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• You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

  

  Claude Chabrol
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• If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
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• I've always supported LGBT organizations and things like that because I felt like I had a vested interest in this, where I wanted to help out.

  

  Kevin McHale
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• A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

  

  Confucius
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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Government
  • Humanity
  • Human Rights

• My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere

• I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

  

  Daphne Guinness
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• It is true that other people can help you, and to lasting effect.. .If I hadn't had Beckett in 1940, I'm not sure I could have stood it. I am really not sure.. .At that time he he was driven by an extremely aggressive and fiery Irish spirit. That has lessened as time has gone on.. .I don't know anywhere in modern art any more faithful or more impressive picture of contemporary humanity than the one he offers us in 'The Unamable'.

  

  Bram van Velde
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