David Merrick Quotes
I'll tell you what it's like to be No. 1. I compare it to climbing Mount Everest. It's very difficult. Lives are lost along the way. You struggle and struggle and finally you get up there. And guess what there is once you get up there? Snow and ice.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.
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It's something you look forward to every year playing different teams and playing different leagues to see how you compare.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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I'll tell you what it's like to be No. 1. I compare it to climbing Mount Everest. It's very difficult. Lives are lost along the way. You struggle and struggle and finally you get up there. And guess what there is once you get up there? Snow and ice.
