Bram van Velde Quotes
I think there is a degree of primitivism in what I do.. .You have to see without illusions. Without trying to protect yourself.
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There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
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A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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We aren't hiding anything, ... We're prepared to completely inform the U.N. secretary-general and world community of how things really stand.
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What we are doing, with the United Nations ' full support, is helping that full majority of Iraqis build what we have here -- a democratic, stable, prosperous and peaceful society.
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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.
