Quotes by belgian authors

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. Brian Molko

Writing Cathartic Being Honest

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself. Brian Molko

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now. Brian Molko

Life Everyday Life Fly Everyday Off Handle Little Used Now

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity. Brian Molko

Great Arrogance Great Deal Insecurity Think Brought Had Deal Huge Bravado

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer! Brian Molko

Me Pushed Songwriting Perhaps Safer Because Lot Forward Expressed Desire

I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo. Celine Buckens

Big Big Fan Michael Fan

Well, I love clothes. Celine Buckens

Love Clothes Well

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I. Celine Buckens

I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left. Chantal Akerman

Work Mother Nobody Longer Because Left Center Realized Now

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile. Chantal Akerman

Time Am Israel Go Exile Wherever Even Jewish

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box. Chantal Akerman

Me You Woman Writer Put Box Am Just Cannot Jewish

I think we mustn't be afraid of the truth. Charles Michel

Truth Think Afraid

We are a country that met successes in the fight against terrorism. Charles Michel

Terrorism Fight Country Met Against Successes

You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules. Charles Michel

God You Constitution Atheist People Law Somebody Own Christian Rules Those Muslim Above Accept Choice Your Europe Jew Need

Belgium is a safe country. Charles Michel

Country Safe Belgium

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something. Chris Adami

Life You Somewhere Google Defined Would About Something Open Put Well Course How Go Encyclopedia Get Might Then

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it. Chris Adami

Life Construct Computer Takes Make Learned Limited Order Granted Actually

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable. Chris Adami

In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you. Chris Adami

You Fight Animal World Decision Binary Example Long Recognition Evolutionary Evolve Would Kinds Animal World Environment For Example Know Also Knowing Because Opponent Same Behaviors Any Flee Your Mechanism

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology. Christian de Duve

Man Science Suffering Care White Humanities Medicine Corner Solace Unpaid Seduced Physiology Student Had Attracted Although Around Laboratory Form Chosen Image Lurking Career

The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles. Christian de Duve

Result First Become Our Considered Possibility Particles Got Accidentally Existence Conditions After Clues Might Certain Injure Right

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches. Christian de Duve

Education School Humanities Ancient Strongly More Had Attended Attracted Tradition Been According Branches Literary Centered Which

The war broke out, and for a number of years I lived in darkness, with the memory of the lakes, the trees and the skies of Sweden, until I returned in 1946 to spend two unforgettable years in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell. Christian de Duve

War Memory Darkness Trees Spend Broke Out Until Returned Years Laboratory Hugo Unforgettable Lakes Skies Sweden Lived Number Two