Joe Morton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
-
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
-
I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
-
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
-
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
-
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
-
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
-
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
-
Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
-
Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
-
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
-
After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
-
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
-
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
-
I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
-
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
-
I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
-
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
-
It's as if Brian de Palma were saying, 'What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?'
-
The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
-
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.
-
We live in such hypersexualised yet totally prudish times. People have this expectation about everyone else's relationship to their own bodies.'Surely you must have shame about your body? Surely what's scariest for you as actor would be to stand in a room naked?' Believe me, I've been in so many more terrifying situations as a performer than that.
-
Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
-
I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.
