Vans Quotes - Page 8

• A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

  James Berardinelli

  Memorable, Vampire, Monsters

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• I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Two, Police

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• I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture - the threat, the interrogation. But it didn't happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC's head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Ideas, Police

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• The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

  Louis C. K.

  Football, Jobs, Teaching

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

  Iris Apfel

  Husband, Men, Lucky

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• I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

  Lee Konitz

  Night, Europe, Car

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• The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.

  Dennis Stock

  Photography, People, Cameras

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• We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

  Jack Johnson

  Wine, Bottles, Getting Lost

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• He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

  Steven Morrissey

  Home, Dating, Romance

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• I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

  Jools Holland

  Kings, Kissing, Trying

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

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• When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

  Albert Hadley

  Differences, Design, Cooking

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• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

  Gary Cherone

  Thinking, Different, Records

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• Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  Declan Lynch

  Civilization, Funeral, Would Be

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• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Men, Humanity

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• Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Hands, Your Side

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• I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.

  Bart Yates

  Art, Pain, Color

  Bart Yates (2004). “Leave Myself Behind”, p.203, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• What do you think of Manchester Uniteds three Rs - Rooney, Ronaldo and van Nistelrooy?

  Rob McCaffrey

  Thinking, Three, Rooney

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• I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Stories, Involved

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

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• Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

  Paul van Dyk

  Country, Dirty, Kids

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• I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

  Dick Bruna

  Nice, Would Be, Very Nice

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• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  Gary Cherone

  Years, Band, Dave

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• It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

  Gary Cherone

  Fun, Real, Believe

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• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

  Gary Cherone

  Hitting, Range, Notes

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• Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

  Dave Lombardo

  Jobs, Airplane, Airports

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• I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Son, Cristiano Ronaldo

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