Van Morrison Quotes

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

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• We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Going
  • Turn

• I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Love
  • Peace

• When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

  

  Carl Safina
  • School
  • High
  • Running

• I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Literature
  • Say

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Long
  • Funny
  • Progress

• I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Women
  • Know
  • Health

• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • School
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • You

• All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Group
  • Mexico

• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

  

  Zane Grey
  • New
  • Year
  • Decent

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Mind

• My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

  

  Epictetus
  • Mind
  • Exercise
  • Functions

• My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
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