Joe Morton Quotes
My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
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Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes bullying if it damages friendships and causes people to dislike someone.
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The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.
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Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.
