Van Morrison Quotes
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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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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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
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I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
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The most grateful things in life for a musician like me is to know that you have someone in the family who have possibility to continue your talent ... that's my son.
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I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
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I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
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Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
