John Morley Quotes
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
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Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
