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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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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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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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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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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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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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've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!
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Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
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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.
