Bram van Velde Quotes
What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power.
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I know how influential I am over my fans and followers. I feel like everything I do, my hair color, my makeup, I always start these huge trends, and I don't even realize what I'm capable of.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
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I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.
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The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.
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There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.
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The harder I worked, the luckier I got.
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
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What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
