Bram van Velde Quotes
I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find.
Bram van Velde
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
Patricia Polacco
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
Lady Gaga
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
Jack Davenport
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
Dale T. Mortensen
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
Famke Janssen
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
Jack Nicholson
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Otto Hermann Kahn
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
Gary Peters
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I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
Edgar Wright
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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
Bertrand Russell
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Freedom.
Lucy Larcom
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Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
Jon Scieszka
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness
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I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.
Madeline Kahn
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National honor is the national property of the highest value.
James Monroe
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I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find.
Bram van Velde
