Bram van Velde Quotes
Because it's an adventure out of all proportion. You have to devote all your strength to it and it's never enough.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
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I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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She said I was afraid of success, which may in fact be true, because I have a feeling that fufilling my potential would really cut into my sittin' around time.
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That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.
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Saying 'no' is so heartbreaking.
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The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.
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The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
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Because it's an adventure out of all proportion. You have to devote all your strength to it and it's never enough.
