Van Morrison Quotes

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

Van Morrison

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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

Jerry Saltz

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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Anatole France

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Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

John Quincy Adams

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I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states.

Stephen Colbert

LiveSimpleManMindMeBelieve

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

Steven Spielberg

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It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

Shura

CriticismYouSaltImportantPraise

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.

Rosamunde Pilcher

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I love interviews, meeting fans, teaching workshops, giving speeches... all of it.

MaryJanice Davidson

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Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Martin Rees

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I am classically trained in French pastry, but I am American and have a natural curiosity and playfulness that comes through in my cooking. I like to present flavors that people are familiar with in unique combinations and forms that may surprise them.

Johnny Iuzzini

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One thing I learned from my old man is that people are going to be happy for you, but not too happy. When the tables are turned and you're hanging out on top with a guy like Randy Orton, who is in the main event at Wrestlemania, not all the guys are going to like you.

Cody Rhodes

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