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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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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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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Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.
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I don't view our approach as negative. I view our approach that when you have a candidate in a Republican primary make statements that would make his position to the left of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama on immigration... we need to bring that out to the people.
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Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys who was just like, 'You know, look, when I was seven I had a six-pack, and it just never went away.'
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What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.
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The right thing to do is just ask what you can give, and then let things manifest in the time they're supposed to.
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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.
