Van Morrison Quotes
The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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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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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We Apple want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.
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I think people are always looking for a good comedy.
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We all need relaxed outfits in our arsenals.
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I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.
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The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.
