Vans Quotes

• Love what you do and do what you love, even if it means living in a van and screaming at God every night.

  Jeffrey Rowland

  Mean, Night, Ifs

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• The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Inspirational, Moving, Progress

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• Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

  Steve Carell

  Ears, Schmucks, Said

  "Fictional character: Barry". "Dinner for Schmucks", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

  T. S. Eliot

  Air, Wings, Dry

  "Ash-Wednesday" l. 34 (1930)

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• The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

  John Dyer

  Painting, Influence, Bigs

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• Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of which we only get to see this haunting, enticing sliver. I utterly love it.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Beautiful, White, Done

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• I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

  Fred Armisen

  Night, People, Complaining

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.

  Rupert Grint

  Fall, Ice Cream, Trying

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• Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Art

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• What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Real

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Youth has triumphed (upon defeating 86-year-old Dirk van Foreest).

  Jacques Mieses

  Years, Youth

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• I'm not going to do red jeans. No green jeans. I don't do Vans and that's the style right now. I don't want to show my socks when I'm wearing jeans.

  T.I.

  Jeans, Style, Green

  "Complex's T.I. Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Art, Creativity, Night

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• Took me by the hand, she's gonna love me in my Chevy Van.

  Sammy Johns

  Hands, Dating, Chevy

  Song: Chevy Van

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Letting Go, Song, Guitar

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• If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if he disassociates himself from forces that he unfortunately coddled and even fostered a little in this campaign, if he is responsible about the way in which he goes about his policy, initiatives on immigration and ObamaCare, trade and other areas, he has a huge opportunity, because the truth is that a lot of this stuff isn't that - there is a lot that can be done.

  William Kristol

  Distance, Opportunity, Obamacare

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

  Armin van Buuren

  Names, Belts, Stage

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• My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

  Dave Mustaine

  First Impression, Firsts, Van Halen

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• I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality.

  Anne Rice

  Hero, Thinking, Blood

  "With The Wolf Gift, Anne Rice Returns to Supernatural Horror". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

  Greil Marcus

  Singers, Modern, Popular Music

  "When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison". Book by Greil Marcus, 2010.

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• I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

  Billy Childish

  War, Moustache, Used

  "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 02, 2006.

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• I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

  Eric Clapton

  Blow, Together, Jam

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• Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

  Tony Iommi

  Influential, Van Halen

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• What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.

  Tom Morello

  Mean, Player, Guitar

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• It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

  Antonin Artaud

  Storm, Climate, Earth

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.484, Univ of California Press

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