Bram van Velde Quotes
Artists who are the defenders of true life become phonies. That’s the perfidious thing about this world. Society turns anyone with a bit of life inside them into a medical case.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
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I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
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I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
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We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.
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You can never overlook a guy.
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Artists who are the defenders of true life become phonies. That’s the perfidious thing about this world. Society turns anyone with a bit of life inside them into a medical case.
