Philipp Meyer Quotes
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
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Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
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When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
