Van Morrison Quotes
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing.
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There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.
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I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
