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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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Family is everything.
