Joe Morton Quotes

When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

  

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• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  

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• My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

  

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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

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• When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

  

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• I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

  

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• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

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• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

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• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  

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• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

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• I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

  

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• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

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• I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

  

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• If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

  

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

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• A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

  

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• When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

  

  Joe Morton
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