Philipp Meyer Quotes
Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.
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I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.
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Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
