Stephen Morris Quotes
I just sat on the bed and cried. I couldn't go to sleep. I was just sitting there thinking 'This poor guy,'
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.
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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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I just sat on the bed and cried. I couldn't go to sleep. I was just sitting there thinking 'This poor guy,'
