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In the year of 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.


Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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MAMIE VAN DOREN I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
MAMIE VAN DOREN When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it...
DICK VAN DYKE There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... ...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle o...
GREG VAN EEKHOUT Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between t...
MARTIN VAN BUREN But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearl...
HENRY VAN DYKE Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
HENRY VAN DYKE When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially...
EDDIE VAN HALEN On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the wo...
EDDIE VAN HALEN And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it a...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from ev...
EDDIE VAN HALEN It's always about the music, never about anything else.
EDDIE VAN HALEN A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiri...
EDDIE VAN HALEN Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of ...
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