Edmund Morris Quotes
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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Our wild boar shoot at our home in Germany is always a riot because we invite lots of friends. We spend the day out in the woods, but then we get all dressed up in long gowns to dance around in the evenings.
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I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
