Joe Morton Quotes

I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the movies that I have a tendency to be most fond of.

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• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Lost

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

• If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Allah

• Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Like
  • Yoga
  • Actually

• Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Long
  • Two
  • Half

• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Price

• Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

  

  Halsey
  • Life
  • Done
  • Proud

• Honestly, are we ever going to get over 'California Girls' by Katy Perry? I know it's old, but that song - I love that song!

  

  Becky G
  • Song
  • Know
  • Get

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Yourself
  • Selfish
  • Camera

• I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Behavior
  • Experiment

• Global warming is my personal experience.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Experience
  • Global Warming

• Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Star
  • Romantic
  • Brave

• I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Work

• My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.

  

  James Harden
  • Dream
  • Team
  • Player

• Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

  

  Francis Maude
  • Children
  • Age
  • Grandchildren

• The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Money
  • Self
  • Losing

• I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the movies that I have a tendency to be most fond of.

  

  Joe Morton