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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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who became superstars. We tried to find a place where Jazz belonged because we didn't sell records.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
