Van Morrison Quotes
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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Islam means peace.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
