Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
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Krista's got a great boyfriend; they've been going together for years. I want to be around to walk her down the aisle.
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I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
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I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.
