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Ben van Berkel Quotes

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

Ben van Berkel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: dutch
Birth: 1957

Topics

Mother Live Music Time Architecture

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Michael Fassbender

Cool Interesting You Point Breeze

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Stephen Harper

Society Find Human Scary Existence

You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Stefan Edberg

Win You Lose Wrong Nothing Some

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

Stella McCartney

Strength Time Woman Attractive Own

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

Stephanie Savage

Time School High School High Because

At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.

Shirley Temple

Dog Love Girl Depression People End

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Want Office Box Rather Than Grant

God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.

Josie Loren

Work Family God Joy Support Blessed

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Josef Albers

Time You See Count Call Resonance

I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian.

Dominic Holland

Think Environment Always Most Brutal

The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.

Derek Walcott

Strength Sea Trees Heights Spice

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

Denis Villeneuve

Succeed Think Process Long Dream