Bram van Velde Quotes
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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a Masonic plot backed by the Jews
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They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.
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You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
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So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
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I'm not even very good at most video games.
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I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.
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Only now 1943 I become conscious that my work in black, white and little color planes has been merely 'drawing' in oil color. In drawing, the lines are the principal means of expressions.. .In painting, however, the lines are absorbed by the color planes; but the limitations of the planes show themselves as lines and conserve their great value.
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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.
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Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself.