Joe Morton Quotes
If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
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We consider ISIS and extremism to be a threat to all of us in the region. . . . Our position is that we help the legitimate governments in the region that have representation in the United Nations. We help the Iraqi government on their request through advisers; we help the Syrian government on their request to help with advisers to fight extremists. . . . So it's both lawful and legitimate.
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Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.
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The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
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Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.
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If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.
