Edmund Morris Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
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I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
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The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.
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I always love to dress up, but I usually end up in a leather jacket and boots!
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We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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I think everybody in Washington could use a curfew, to be honest.
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I worked my butt off in high school and received a lot of scholarships for college and to throw all that away for acting was tough for my family, but it was just something I felt my heart pulling me towards and don't regret a single minute of it. I love to act!
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It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
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I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.
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I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.
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Reading, as he has explained to Trevelyan, is for him the purest imaginative therapy.
