Bram van Velde Quotes
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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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've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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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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I believe with faith all is possible. An answer to prayer is greatest positive feedback you can get.
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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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If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
