Anton du Beke Quotes
I think I've got a bit more to offer than just dancing. It might just be me that thinks that, but it's worth saying.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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There is more to life than show business.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ('Cue the tears!'). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.
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Say, if I hadn't been sick last summer, I'd have broken hell out of that home run record! Besides, the President gets a four-year contract. I'm only asking for three.
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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.
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I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
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The crazy colors tend to wash out so quick. Basically, it ensures that you never wash your hair, so it starts to do some cool stuff.
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I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.
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We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
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I think I've got a bit more to offer than just dancing. It might just be me that thinks that, but it's worth saying.
