Van Morrison Quotes
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
