Christopher Morley Quotes
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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Movies are too literal.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
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Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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I want to get better every year.
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I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that said I was messing up my genetics by dating my boyfriend because he's not black. It was an interesting thing to read.
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One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.
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We'll slide down the surface of things...
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The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.
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Have you ever been with a girl, you had an argument and you wanted to make up with her? As long as you say nothing, you can make up with her. If you say something, it's going to be another argument, you are going to get no pussy and you go to bed mad. But if you don't say nothing, it gets closer and closer, y'all make love and it's all expressed through love.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
