Jim Morrison Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
