Van Morrison Quotes

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

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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.

  

  Ofra Strauss
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• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
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• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
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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.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
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• I'm totally a geek.

  

  Zachary Levi
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• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • People
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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.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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  • Life
  • Treat

• 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.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• 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.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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  • Failure
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
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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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • God
  • Mom
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• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mom
  • Name

• It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

  

  Ben Harper
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  • Man

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
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• So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Dog

• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  

  Van Morrison
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