Bram van Velde Quotes
There's a perpetual duel going on between the world of the spirit and the world of things. Although the one only has meaning in relation to the other.
Quotes to Explore
-
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
-
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
-
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
-
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
-
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
-
I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
-
In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.
-
When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
-
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
-
I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
-
I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.
-
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
-
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
-
I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.
-
God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.
-
That is one of the benefits of having so many media outlets under one umbrella. It will definitely direct traffic.
-
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
-
If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
-
One way to develop faith and confidence is simply to practice using it. If I were to ask you whether you're confident that you can tie your own shoes, I'm sure you could tell me with perfect confidence that you can. Why? Only because you've done it thousands of times! So practice confidence by using it consistently, and you'll be amazed at the dividends it reaps in every area of your life.
-
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
-
The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows - you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.
-
There's a perpetual duel going on between the world of the spirit and the world of things. Although the one only has meaning in relation to the other.
