Van Morrison Quotes
When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.
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If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
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We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who removed us from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty framework for nuclear disarmament, and then Barack Obama, who created a trillion-dollar budget for us to spend on a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery.
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In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
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When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.
