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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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.
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I looked down on a quilt of clouds, bordered on the horizon by the blood-orange streaks of the setting sun. As the steady hum of the engine drowned out the chatter around me, I realized that I would probably be thinking about the implications of Watergate for the rest of my life. For the country, and for me it had been a significant point in time. (page 263)
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
