Van Morrison Quotes
I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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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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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.
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In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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I can't work without music.
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I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
