Edmund Morris Quotes
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.Edmund Morris
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
Faith Prince -
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tzu -
Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
Nancy Cartwright -
I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
Ian Holm -
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Who buys French cars? Not me.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
Edith Widder -
I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
Eddie Marsan -
Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
Kate Mosse -
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Barry White -
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Joanne Rowling -
The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
Ted Yoho
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
M. J. Rose -
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Daniel Bell -
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
e. e. cummings -
I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
Ada Yonath -
Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.
Calvin Johnson -
Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
Raekwon
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It was in order to avoid any incorrect assessment on the part of your Government with respect to Cuba that I publicly stated that if certain developments in Cuba took place, the United States would do whatever must be done to protect its own security and that of its allies.
John F. Kennedy -
When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.
Barack Obama -
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
J. G. Ballard -
I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
Thomas Nagel -
I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
Edith Pearlman -
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.
Edmund Morris