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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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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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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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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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.
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Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.
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I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most.
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Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
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Historically, there is a presumption that the legitimate police powers of the states are not to be pre-empted by federal law unless Congress has made that purpose clear.
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Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
