Van Morrison Quotes

My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Parents
  • Movies
  • Easy

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Best

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Music
  • Art
  • Reading

• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Never

• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Church

• It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Dark

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Matter
  • Grass

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• 'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • May

• We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Want
  • Words
  • Comfort

• I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

  

  James Spader
  • History
  • Question

• Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

  

  bell hooks
  • Black
  • Control

• My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Dope