Edmund Morris Quotes
Do not all these things interest you? Isn’t it a fine thing to be alive when so many great things are happening?
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
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I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
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I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.
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If people are caught up for 36 hours in a soulless building in Brussels, tempers are going to fray... It is in many ways a sad day for Europe. But out of this sad day there is an opportunity to reconnect.
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I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
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Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
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You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
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Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
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For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.
