Bob Morley Quotes
People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.
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I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
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The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.
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People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.
