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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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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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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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state
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I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
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In love, sometimes what you fear is exactly what you need.
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I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
