Morris Quotes

• I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Mother, Father, Years

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• Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

  Gaines Adams

  Expectations, Coaches, Stills

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• Did you know that from the beginning of time the whole purpose of God was to reproduce Himself?...And when we stand up here, brother, you're not looking at Morris Cerullo; you're looking at God. You're looking at Jesus

  Morris Cerullo

  Jesus, Brother, Purpose

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• In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

  Kenneth Noland

  Helen, Known

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• Randolph Morris on the inside for Kentucky has been too much of a load for Villanova to handle

  Billy Packer

  Kentucky, Too Much, Handle

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• RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

  Lucinda Williams

  Singers

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• The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Business, Agency, Lasts

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• The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into court....During the period 1935 to early 1939, the leading laboratory for electronic or energy medicine in the USA, in New Jersy, was independently verifying Rife's discoveries...(this) laboratory was "mysteriously" burned to the ground.....Rife's treatment was ruthlessly suppressed by the AMA's Morris Fishbein.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Discovery, Energy Medicine

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• Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book
  is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me of all the
  fun and craziness and fake drama that trained me for this
  profession. It's hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone
  wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these
  idiotsand remember I'm one of them. If you have a child,
  make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom-
  anywhere.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Children, Fun, Crazy

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• In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

  Sydney Brenner

  People, Challenges, Atmosphere

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• I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Wish, Endeavor, All The Best

  "Paul Oakenfold Leaves WME for APA (Exclusive)" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, New York, Giving

  "A Giant artistic Gibe at Jesse Helms" by Roberta Smith, New York Times, April 20, 1990.

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• I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of life.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Strong, Views, Embedded

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• The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Hands, Way, Biting

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• I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

  David Geffen

  Motivational, Optimistic

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• The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

  Saul Bellow

  Asking, Philosopher, Students

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

  Kirstie Alley

  Agency, Waiting, Agents

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• I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

  Teri Garr

  Class, Acting, Eric

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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• I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

  Spike Lee

  Summer, Dream, College

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

  Denzel Washington

  Success, Senior, Jobs

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• I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

  Betty White

  Dog, Zoos, Cat

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.

  Betty White

  Animal, Years, Medicine

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Mother, Heart

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• Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.

  Sarah Dessen

  Islands, Hands, Hug

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.95, Penguin

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• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  William James

  Lonely, Independent, Science

  William James (2012). “The Will to Believe and Human Immortality”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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