Piers Morgan Quotes

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

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• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

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• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
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• I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

  

  Eddie Albert
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• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

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• I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

  

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• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  

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• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

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• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

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• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

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• Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

  

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• 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

  

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• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

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• I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

  

  Mary J. Blige
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• In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.

  

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• Bill Clinton is the greatest president of my lifetime. Period.

  

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• There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

  

  Piers Morgan
  • School
  • War