James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.
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In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.
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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
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It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
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My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.
