Denise Morrison Quotes

I was so results-oriented.

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• I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Having Fun

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Job

• Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • See
  • Trials
  • Incentives

• Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Anger

• Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

  

  M.I.A.
  • She
  • Truth
  • Freedom

• Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Actor

• People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Best
  • Needs

• I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Never
  • Car
  • Hollywood

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• Shakespeare is universal.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Universal
  • Shakespeare

• The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Work
  • Country
  • Process

• Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Kids

• My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • Different
  • American
  • Death

• One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.

  

  Matthew Davis
  • Movie
  • Period

• I've got my travelling, my packing, my after-show activities all down to a science. I used to not work out on tour; now I take a trainer with me. I do things to make sure that I can give the crowd my all, because that's what I'm all about.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • Work
  • Science

• The visual possibility of seeing the historical person as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.

  

  Hamid Dabashi
  • Modernity
  • Qur'anic man
  • Iranians access

• If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

  

  Paul Waner
  • Tired

• In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Law

• I was so results-oriented.

  

  Denise Morrison