Garrett Morgan Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'
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The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
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Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empathy which he must develop simultaneously with his imaginative capacity.
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If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?
