Joe Morton Quotes
I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
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I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, 'Oh, Lord'. I'd carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore, so it was time to have a reduction.
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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But with the morning cool reflection came.
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Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
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À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coupRendez un baiser ou un coupMais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendreOffrez toute la haine de votre coeurCar vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit
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As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the health of the economy as a whole or the health of the financial markets as a whole.
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I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
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I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.
