Joe Morton Quotes
Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not 'Life'. And neither is psychological life. Life is the world. Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
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I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.
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I was very proud to support Obama's presidential campaign, from the primaries all the way to his historic victory.
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I definitely am a ritualistic person.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.
