Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
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• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
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• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

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• I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.

  

  Xavier Dolan
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• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
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• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
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• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
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• Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

  

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• I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

  

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• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

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• I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.

  

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• President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

  

  David Petraeus
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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
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• I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

  

  Andy Rooney
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• I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

  

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