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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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."
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When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
John Moody -
If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.
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If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.
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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.
