Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey) Quotes

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

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• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

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• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

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• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

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• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

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• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

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• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

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• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

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• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

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• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

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• I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.

  

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• You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

  

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• It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

  

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• Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

  

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• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  

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• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

  

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