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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If another one of my Whole-Foods friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet.
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But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
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I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.
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I've got a lot of issues. I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.
