Joe Morton Quotes
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent -
Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
Mallory Ortberg -
You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
Harry Browne -
When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
Lance Reddick
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke -
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
Omari Hardwick -
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
Hal Linden -
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
Calvin Trillin
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I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
Zendaya -
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
Karel Capek -
Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.
Pankaj Mishra -
What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
Ed Weeks -
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Oliver Herford -
Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar,Dismantling earth and stars - The cosmic beauties all to mar - Not Nature’s murderous mutiny,Nor man’s exploding destinyCan touch me here.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.
Ayn Rand -
I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.
Jason Alexander -
My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
Amy Plum -
I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
He failed to comply with the conditions and was perpetrating a fraud on the court. How can people think that is the right thing to do?
Bruce Bartlett -
I think many villains have the burden of not being very human.
Joe Morton