Joe Morton Quotes
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.
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One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.
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I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.
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That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
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I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life. You should have been, or something's the matter with you.
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I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.
