Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I don't persuade to suicide.
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Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
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Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?
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We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.
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I don't want to repeat my mistakes.
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It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?
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I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
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Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether they thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I say, 'well, no, this administration was colorblind in its incompetence.' But, everyone here knows that the disaster and the poverty happened long before the hurricane hit.
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No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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GPL version 3 was not a good 'here we give you version 2' and then we try to sneak in this new rules and try force everyone to upgrade; that was the part I disliked. The FSF did really sneaky stuff, downright immoral in my opinion.
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
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This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
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Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.
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A banker need not be popular; indeed a good banker in a healthy capitalist society should probably be much disliked. People do not wish to trust their money to a hail-fellow-well-met but to a misanthrope who can say no.
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When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.
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Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.
