Nick van de Wall (Afrojack) Quotes
I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on the community and friends and family for support, and I learned to play hockey using second hand equipment.
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The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
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The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital and you've got to figure where it's going. And if your currency is weakening, that means you're paying a load.
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I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
