Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
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I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
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Some of you are probably thinking that you may panic and run. You will not! Others are worried about dying. Some of you will. But all men die. No one ever gets out of this life alive.
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There's more to life than books you know, but not much more
