Van Morrison Quotes
I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.
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There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.
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I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
