Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I love to write.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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'If you are with God in truth and faith, whatever comes as a blessing or trial will be what God allows. If you are called by God, from beginning to the end, your journey has been documented. Nothing outside your documentary will happen without God’s knowledge.'
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There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
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I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
