Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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Every single thing in my life is built around race.
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Everywhere I go, I buy something. I probably have an issue with shopping.
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
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At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.
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It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.
