Joe Morton Quotes

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

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• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Know
  • Always
  • Artist

• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Style
  • Color
  • Identity

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • Value
  • Clear

• Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Help
  • Happy
  • Strong

• Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Better
  • Leaving

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • Experience

• I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Family
  • Want
  • Down

• Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Community
  • Loyalty

• For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Road
  • Touring

• That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Today
  • Me
  • Voice

• When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • See
  • Listen

• The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Important
  • Sound
  • Exactitude

• 'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Unique
  • Matter

• Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.

  

  Pablo Amaringo
  • People
  • Soul
  • Water

• My style is to go in there... and kill the guy, you know

  

  Wanderlei Silva
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Knows

• I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

  

  Joe Morton