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

  John Dyer

  Painting, Influence, Bigs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Louis van Gaal is one of the most incredible coaches who's done a fantastic job in clubs all over Europe.

  Gary Neville

  Jobs, Europe, Done

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• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  Sammy Hagar

  Gold, Albums, Arguing

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• The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

  Alex Van Halen

  Together, Van Halen, Get Back

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• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Song, Stupid, Home

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• Oh yeah, I'm literally walking through my house now looking down and there are maybe, like, 15 pairs on the floor. For real. Real talk. It's just simplicity. They're something I wear every day. Before I got a deal with them, I was wearing some type of Vans all the time. I would just order them by the box, like, 10 at a time.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Real, Order, Simplicity

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• After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

  Tim Ferriss

  Mountain, Telescopes, Location

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• I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fun, Thinking, Two

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• My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

  Michael Caine

  Nice, Hero, Dark

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• I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

  Steve Buscemi

  Moving, Knowing, Acting

  "New Again: Steve Buscemi". Interview with Brooke Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. October, 1996.

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