Denise Morrison Quotes
I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
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My dream is to make everyone love video games.
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Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;- The things o'er which thou mournest-are they not playthings all?
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I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.
