Joe Morgan Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.
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I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
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There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
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I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
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Family is everything.
