Van Morrison Quotes
Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.
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Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up the definition of "nation"; this is how awkward my relation is to this concept. And it is defined as, "a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory." Perhaps if you replace "descent" with "dissent" the definition becomes more meaningful.
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To be dull is easy,
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You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.
