Jim Morrison Quotes
Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
Quotes to Explore
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
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If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
