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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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
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For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.
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I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
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In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.
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There's more to life than books you know, but not much more
