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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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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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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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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If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.
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I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going.
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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
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There's no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time.
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality - that comes with a pruning - knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
