Joe Morton Quotes
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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I always take things step by step and match by match.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples' homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
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Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.
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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
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When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.
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With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
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Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
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The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all, Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill
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I can't get inside the head of a politician today.
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Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
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In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It's often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.
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I don't watch a lot of television, which sounds strange for someone who works in TV.
