Van Morrison Quotes
I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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The world needs some help.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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Censorship is the height of vanity.
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It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.
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I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
