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.Bram van Velde
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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.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
Tatum O'Neal -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
Zooey Deschanel -
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
Jack Ma -
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.
Ramana Maharshi -
The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
Katee Sackhoff -
I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
Raj Kapoor -
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
Annalena McAfee -
There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
Ken Thompson
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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.
Louis Navellier -
The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.
Jens Martin Skibsted -
Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.
Karyn Kusama -
The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.
Maurice Saatchi -
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage -
I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.
John Patrick Shanley
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
Katharine Cornell -
I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.
Cheryl Ladd -
I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.
Tyson Fury -
I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
Alexander McQueen -
What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
Bram van Velde