Bram van Velde Quotes

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

Bram van Velde

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Life
  • Myself
  • New

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Worked

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Most
  • Rather
  • Reporters

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunities

• My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mom

• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Human
  • Born
  • Nobility

• For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life...

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Adventure

• A great social reformer.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Social reformer

• Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Chair

• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

  

  George Santayana
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • Happiness

• The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

  

  Steven Biko
  • Happiness
  • Tension
  • Liberation

• It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Happiness
  • Intervention
  • Revealing