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'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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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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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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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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New Yorkers are historically tough crowds.
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I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.
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I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
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I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.
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Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.
