Van Morrison Quotes
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.
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Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.
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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
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When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
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It's always great to be involved in something that's not in an in-your-face fashion, but has a message that goes out guised as entertainment.
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There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
