Edmund Morris Quotes
It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions.
