Mary Manin Morrissey Quotes
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
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If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.
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Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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I always believe that if you put it out there in the universe and you believe in it, you will stuff to happen.
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As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
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Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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We are all created in the image of our Creator - Love itself.
