Van Morrison Quotes
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
