Van Morrison Quotes
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
Quotes to Explore
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I went to a soccer high school, and it was really different to being on 'Idol.' So I decided to quit school, and I put all my energy into music, and things started to happen.
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Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.
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I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.
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The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
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We want our children to grow up in a safe community.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
