John Morgridge Quotes
I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of totalitarianism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.
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I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
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After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career - neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
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I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.
