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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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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Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.
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Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.
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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
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I don't watch a lot of television, which sounds strange for someone who works in TV.
