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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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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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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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.
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Oh you who read some song I have sung What know you of the soul from whence it sprung
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
