James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

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• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
  • Reclusive

• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Country
  • Help
  • Decision

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Money

• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Defeated

• When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • People
  • Me
  • Cool

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Future
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Go

• When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Up
  • Night
  • Growing

• Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Food
  • Need

• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Speak
  • Place
  • Dead

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Impact

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• 'Jeeves,' I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, 'what the dickens is all this?'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Free
  • Attention
  • Drawing

• They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.

  

  William Cowper
  • Attention
  • Pain
  • Brain

• Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

  

  Jill Lepore

• Prince never, ever mentioned it except to say he wished he was taller so he could play basketball. He was actually a really great basketball player.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Great
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Attention