Bram van Velde Quotes
An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
Bram van Velde
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
J. G. Ballard
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I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
Caitlyn Jenner
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
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This atlas of genomic changes will provide new insights into the biological basis of cancer, which in turn will lead to new tests to detect cancer in its early, most treatable stages; new therapies to target cancer at its most vulnerable points; and, ultimately, new strategies to prevent cancer.
Elias Zerhouni
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The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.
Terence McKenna
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Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.
Saib Tabrizi
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What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!... [people] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real.
Keanu Reeves
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If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
Alicia Keys
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An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
Bram van Velde
