William Wilson Morgan Quotes

Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.

William Wilson Morgan

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• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
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• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  

  Zack Snyder
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  • Up
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• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
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  • May
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• Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
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  • Way
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• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Think
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• They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.

  

  T. R. Knight
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  • Love
  • New

• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Play
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• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Today
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• Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

  

  Lara St. John
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• I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

  

  Abigail Disney
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• I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because I grew up in rural Brazil and could see first-hand how poverty forced people to work in harsh, exploitative conditions.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.

  

  Brandon Stanton
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• People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

  

  Bianca Jagger
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  • Up
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• One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held conservative principles, and to embrace Donald Trump.

  

  Charlie Sykes
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• Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

  

  Charlie Korsmo
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  • Real

• I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.

  

  Kesha
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• For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
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  • May
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• When you're family, you don't go and say bad stuff.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Family
  • Bad

• One film is based on the Medea myth about a woman who kills her own child - The Love of Ruins. It is almost a technical exercise to see if I can convince an audience or make an audience sympathetic to a woman who kills her own child.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Exercise

• Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.

  

  William Wilson Morgan
  • People
  • Science
  • Classification