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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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• All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Years, Play, Otters

  "Dick Van Dyke Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 23, 2010.

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• I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Player, Rocks, Guy

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• My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Brother, Hero, Writing

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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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• My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Two, Drawing

  "Eli Broad: Blame My Wife". Interview with Sophie Duvernoy, www.laweekly.com. September 22, 2011.

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• It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

  David Bailey

  Art

  "David Bailey: out of his skulls". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2010.

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• When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

  Sammy Hagar

  Breakup, Disappointment, Cds

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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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• I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Painting, Rage

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• My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Dad, Able

  Marco Rubio's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

  David Lee Roth

  Rain, Parades, Van Halen

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'

  Keanu Reeves

  Opportunity, Hands, Creative

  "Q&A: Keanu Reeves on Making His First Movie, Man of Tai Chi". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2013.

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• The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

  Dr. Seuss

  Yawning, Names, Important

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• We're ganna we like to actually um, kidnap them in a van, and tie them up, and leave them somewhere dangerous...that's the SUPRISE!

  Gerard Way

  Ties, Dangerous

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• At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fighting, Thinking, Squares

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1297, Dell

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• But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

  Tim Dorsey

  Spiritual, Waiting, Vision

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• If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Barns, Christ

  "Anderson Cooper Tries Out Live Format With Jack 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian". Live chat, www.businessinsider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Hate, Years, Parent

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Aug 18, 2012

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• Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ideas, Littles, Pity

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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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• The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Names, Long, Legacy

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• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Attitude, Kids, People

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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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