Van Morrison Quotes
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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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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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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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 have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
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When you have trust, it gives you a better chance to be successful.
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The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
