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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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
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Sometimes I don't think that I'm the most relatable female artist.
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
