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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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation
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It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
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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.
