Dave Morris Quotes
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I get depressed at airports.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
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In later years, it would become fashionable to say of the missionaries, 'They came to the islands to do good, and they did right well.' Others made jest of the missionary slogan, 'They came to a nation in darkness; they left it in light,' by pointing out: 'Of course they left Hawaii lighter. They stole every goddamned thing that wasn't nailed down.'
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
