Virgil van Dijk Quotes
You need to be aware of the qualities of every striker you face, as I always am, but sometimes you need to be smart and more than 100% ready for anything.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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Music is about the performance.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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You need to be aware of the qualities of every striker you face, as I always am, but sometimes you need to be smart and more than 100% ready for anything.
