Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.
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Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
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I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
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I don't perform. Seals perform.
