Joe Morton Quotes
I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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She tells me to 'live free and be free, but listen to other people's advice.' I listen, but I don't always follow it.
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If the past is any guide, what has happened this winter could happen again next winter and the winter after that and so on and so on. What we face is a threat to our whole way of life...The case is now surely overwhelming, there will be no solution to our difficulties which does not include some restriction on the power of the unions.
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Up here in space, you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been dumping on you all your life . . . they're all down there. Up here it's a new start. You can be yourself and do your own thing . . . and nobody can tell you different.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.
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I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.
