Ted Morgan Quotes
The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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I love Costco.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.
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Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
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I don't intimidate anyone.
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The police in Punjab has been politicised; it has become a wing of the Akali Dal.
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Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Inflation is not even a remote risk in the U.S.. Because inflation is so low, monetary policy can afford to be patient to be sure that the recovery is sustained.
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.
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The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.
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The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.
