George Pope Morris Quotes
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.
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Man I been did that. Man I been popped off. And if she aint tryna to give it up she get dropped off.
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One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.
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Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.
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Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
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I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.
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Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
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Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.
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In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
