Armin van Buuren Quotes
We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.
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The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.
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I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
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The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
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Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.
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We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.
