Bram van Velde Quotes
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form. … You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And I'd say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.
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I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings a.o. with Theo van Doesburg and draw commercial art for newspapers.
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I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.
