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.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Career
  • Very
  • Short

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Live
  • Amazing
  • Weather

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Up
  • Sea

• I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Good
  • Think
  • Future

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• 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.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Art
  • Home
  • Japanese

• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Strength
  • Overcome
  • Acquire

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Doctor
  • Witch

• 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.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

  

  Drake Bell
  • People
  • Music

• Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

  

  Michael Kiwanuka
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Songs

• Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Time
  • College

• If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Record

• I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
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