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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What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
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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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Faith, by definition, is a risk.
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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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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall not resist. He allows humans to keep him wherever they wish-in monstrance or tabernacle; to carry him in procession; to bring him into the homes of the sick and dying; to dispense him to all, whether saint or sinner. The gospel tells how marvelously he obeyed Mary and Joseph. Today he obeys every priest in the world.
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Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
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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.
