Stephen Morris Quotes

Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Experience
  • History
  • Law

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Goal
  • Acting

• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Democratic
  • Revelations
  • Societies

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

• When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Should
  • Sexiness

• What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Environmental

• I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Service
  • Sacrifice

• I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Done
  • You
  • Me

• I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Training
  • Week
  • Gym

• Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Together
  • More
  • Ever

• As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Child

• Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Words
  • Me
  • English

• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Model

• My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Poetry

• Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Christmas
  • Everything

• Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Learning
  • Progress
  • Stills

• Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.

  

  Stephen Morris New Order
  • Music
  • Wallpaper
  • Personal Thing