Bram van Velde Quotes
In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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For many people, changing course is also a sign of weakness, tantamount to admitting that you don’t know what you are doing. This strikes me as particularly bizarre—personally, I think the person who can’t change his or her mind is dangerous. Steve Jobs was known for changing his mind instantly in the light of new facts, and I don’t know anyone who thought he was weak.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
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In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.
