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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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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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
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I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.
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I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.
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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
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I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.
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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.
