Brian Morton Quotes
She loved to return to the world of the book, a world in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.
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There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
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Everybody goes and sees 'Fantastic Four,' but nobody sees 'Sunshine.' I'd have a different career if people saw that.
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Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'
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She loved to return to the world of the book, a world in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.
