Joe Morton Quotes

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

Joe Morton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1947

Topics

SocietyViewYouWillWayFirst

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Jim Sullivan

PeopleMeThinkPageFirstWho

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.

Jennifer Aniston

ThinkDoingYouBodyChangesUp

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

Jeff Daniels

TimeJobPeopleCityDoorDumb

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

DayBelieveEvery DayAprilJuly

I feel everyone should feel empowered to live their best life.

JoJo Siwa

LifeLiveBestFeelEveryoneI Feel

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleStartWeirdCountSentences

The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.

Deborah Tannen

SupportSisterConnectionSecrets

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.

David Shields

MomentMeConfusedRememberYou

I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.

Chili Davis

PeopleAlwaysOutRoomAnything

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

Claude Bernard

LookingKnowUnderstandWillWhoHe

A lot of times, professional athletes say, 'I'm not a role model; I'm an athlete.' I don't mind being a role model because I know what I've done in order to make it to where I am right now. It's a lot of hard work; it's a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it's going to take time.

Bobby Lashley

WorkHard WorkTimeI AmMindKnow

The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

Alice Morse Earle

ThinkVictimNobleSeenMartyrEven

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