Derek Mears Quotes
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
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I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so.
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Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.
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Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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I've got a lot of issues. I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.
