Simon Van Booy Quotes

I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.

Simon Van Booy

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TimeMeWritingFurnitureLiving

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

John Newcombe

TimeProblemTongueRightHospital

I've always been kind of a voyeur.

Maya Hawke

KindAlwaysBeenVoyeur

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Matthew Scully

LiveGodManAnimalSmallPerson

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

PeopleMeBecomeAskAnythingMade

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

Jeanette Winterson

LifePeopleEnoughPersonTwo People

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

Amy Lee

CreativeLookingDesignUniqueFind

Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.

Anand Mahindra

GoingElectricInevitably

Reggae goes in and out. It sounds so good, it feels so good and feels so tropical, but the problem is not everybody is Caribbean. Not everyone is going to sound authentic doing it, and sometimes it comes off cheesy when other people do it.

Tory Lanez

GoodPeopleProblemDoingSometimes

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

DeathSayThey SayUsObligations

I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment.

Dawn Richard

MomentYouAnythingReleaseAway

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.

Debi Mazar

AlwaysNamesWatchDaughtersWhich

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

SufferingWorldFiresAroundStrife

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