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 remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight.
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The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
