Van Morrison Quotes
I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
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It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.
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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
