Joe Morton Quotes
You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I don't want to be a burden on anybody.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
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We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.
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You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
