Ben van Berkel Quotes
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'
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Home is here in London and always has been.
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I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.
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I'm just not a natural teacher.
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My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
