Nick van de Wall (Afrojack) Quotes
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I love books.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.
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If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
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You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
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As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
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People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
