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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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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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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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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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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A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
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My sister was always supportive. When I first moved to L.A., she was like 'I know you can do it!' But my parents, in the beginning, not so much. They were kinda like, 'I'll believe it when I see it.' But when I actually started booking things, my dad was like, 'Oh, I knew it all along.'
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I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
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I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
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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.
