Michael Morpurgo Quotes
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son… all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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I really like and singing, and songwriting and producing. It depends on the song and the mood and who I'm working with, what the song is about and where it came from, any number of things affect the levels of creativity. I try not to do too much delineating with my art. Really, it's art, so for me I don't have a most, I just really enjoy my entire process.
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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
