Nick van de Wall (Afrojack) Quotes
There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
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I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
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My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
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I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
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I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.
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Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'
