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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To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.
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The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.
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I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.
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Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how they actually look, but are satisfied with what their clothes make them feel and believe about their looks. These people may be the true originals, even though they are certainly not the best appreciated. The famous messages of dress, the well-known language of clothes, is very often not doing any communicating at all; a good deal of it is a form of private muttering.
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Covenant belonging gives us place, narrative, capacity to become. It produces faith unto life and salvation.
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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.
