Philipp Meyer Quotes
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
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Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.
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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
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I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.
Colson Whitehead -
How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
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I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
