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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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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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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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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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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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
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The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
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Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
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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.
