Van Morrison Quotes
Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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We've always believed in our music.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.
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I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.
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Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.
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There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
