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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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
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The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.
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It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
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We're just very lucky to have all these fans supporting us.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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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.
