Johnny Marr Quotes
When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
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We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
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When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.
