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'm totally a geek.
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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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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
