David Morrissey Quotes
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes.
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
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I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
