Alex Van Halen Quotes
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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Deep down, I never wanted to see Mourinho fired. We experienced some very beautiful things together in 2015.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
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Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
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The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.
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If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
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Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.
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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
