Nick Morgan (Nicholas H. Morgan) Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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The writer is all alone.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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I like retirement.
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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
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If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Mirror neurons make human empathy possible.
