James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Being queen is overrated.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.
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I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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I'm learning on the guitar all the time.
