Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty spannerShe said 'eh, I know you and you cannot sing'I said 'that's nothing you should hear me play piano'
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.
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So I broke into the palace, with a sponge and a rusty spannerShe said 'eh, I know you and you cannot sing'I said 'that's nothing you should hear me play piano'
