Bram van Velde Quotes
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
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Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.
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My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good.
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Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.
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Business is business. You know how that works. Because stations run on ad money. If they're playing a gay artist, then ad money dries up. So they have to be careful.
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I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
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There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
