Bram van Velde Quotes
Everyone cheats. Only artists don’t. They don’t fool people and they aren’t fooled. They are outside all that. Nobody can understand them.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person; I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.
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Everyone cheats. Only artists don’t. They don’t fool people and they aren’t fooled. They are outside all that. Nobody can understand them.
