John Morgridge Quotes
My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
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I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.
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I'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.
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I thought it was really odd at how much people freaked out at Katrina. You'd think they'd be worried about something important. 'Oh my God, look! George Bush is just appointing all his friends into office and we're in an unfounded war...' But no- 'Fuck that! That nigger's stealing some potato chips!'
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Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
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My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
