Christopher Morley Quotes
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I don't know if there is anyone who wouldn't want to play some kind of superhero. I don't know if the world is getting sick of superhero movies or not, but I think you will endlessly have actors who are intrigued by the idea of playing a superhero.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
