Edmund Morris Quotes
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.
