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• Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

  Albert Brooks

  Art, Cutting, Together

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

  Ron Atkinson

  Two, Lasts, England

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

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• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  Joey Bishop

  Mother, Sunset, Names

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• Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van?

  Craig Ferguson

  Band, Remember, Flocks

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• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  Gail Porter

  Mean, Looks, Reckless

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• All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Moving, Clothes

  "Titus / The Break-Up". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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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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• Van Halen is a work in progress.

  Alex Van Halen

  Progress, Work In Progress, Van Halen

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• I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

  Frank Iero

  Mean, Player, Practice

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• I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway. I pulled up on the hard shoulder and got my cans out. Then I filled up and set off again. That's how naive I was - so much not a cosmopolitan girl.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Oxford, Filled Up

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.

  Frank Rich

  Taken, Media, Downing Street

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• A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

  Pam Brown

  Gratitude, Children, Flower

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• I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

  Alvin Lee

  Thinking, Guitar, Modern

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• But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fashion, Past, Years

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• When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Children, Together

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Painting

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• I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Vacation, Names

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2008.

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• It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

  Kate Hudson

  People, Competition, Would Be

  "Full of joie de vivre". The Journal Interview, www.thejournal.co.uk. September 19, 2003.

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• Well, I came down to LA initially to join The Groundlings, which is an improv comedy group. I didn't get in, of course, becaue I'm not a part of The Groundlings. I just assumed that I could walk in and take over. So they said: "Hit the road Jack." And I ended up getting an agent instead. They sent me out on a couple of leads and I ended up on a sitcom and Van Wilder thereafter and then pantsless with Sandra Bullock.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Couple, Groups, Agents

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

  James McBride

  Headlights, Stills

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• I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

  Michael Shannon

  Play, People, Chicago

  "Michael Shannon Talks BOARDWALK EMPIRE, MAN OF STEEL, and Future Projects" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Years, Sunflower, Next

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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 didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Hard Work, Python, Perfect

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