Gary Saul Morson Quotes
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.
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The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
