Van Morrison Quotes
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
Quotes to Explore
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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Everything is as important as everything else.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness-calling their denial knowledge.
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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, 'You gave hope to other balding men.' My new epitaph: 'Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly.'
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Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
