Van Morrison Quotes
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
Quotes to Explore
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
