Bram van Velde Quotes
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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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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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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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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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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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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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
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I love that vein which uses sci-fi to address society's problems. It is the same when you have useful nightmares - things morph, and you get to confront issues in your dreams.
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A guy who didn’t have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn’t know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn’t. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael.
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And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights - the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation - the right to breathe air as nature provided it - the right of future generations to a healthy existence?
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As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.
