Edmund Morris Quotes
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.
Quotes to Explore
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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.'
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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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!'
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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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.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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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.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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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.
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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.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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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.
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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.
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Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
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I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself.
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We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough.
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The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.
