Van Morrison Quotes

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• What is a Muslim neighborhood? How many Muslims have to be in a neighborhood before it becomes worthy of checking papers and kicking in the doors of homes and businesses?

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Doors
  • Before
  • Neighborhood

• I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Day
  • Starting

• Actors can't retire. What would they do?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Would
  • Retire

• I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • New York
  • Anxious

• There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Man
  • Words
  • College

• I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Actor

• Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • People
  • Good
  • Religion

• I love interpreting other people's music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • Music
  • Interpreting

• I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Love
  • Job
  • Challenges

• Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Up
  • Real
  • Strong

• We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Thought
  • Sound
  • Hip Hop

• Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Today
  • Things
  • Modern

• He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.

  

  Aeschines

• She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Heart
  • She

• I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • Work
  • Father

• A novel is not an allegory ... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Experience

• My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Why
  • History

• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

  

  Picabo Street
  • Life
  • Done
  • True

• Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.

  

  David Slade
  • People
  • Trying
  • Picture

• Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

  

  Van Morrison