Bram van Velde Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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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.
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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.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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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.
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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.
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I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.
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Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
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I respect the Pantera fans with all my heart.
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Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
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I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.
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It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
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I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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I'm in a nightmare.
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An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
