Nick van de Wall (Afrojack) Quotes
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.
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Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.
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Cars for me are like a piece of art.
