Edmund Morris Quotes
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
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There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
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When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
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My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
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Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos.
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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
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Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
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Reading, as he has explained to Trevelyan, is for him the purest imaginative therapy.
