Van Morrison Quotes
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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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.
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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.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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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.
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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.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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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?
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
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I think that it is important that one grows a thick skin fast in this business, and I think we have done that.
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Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
