Philipp Meyer Quotes
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
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Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.
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We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.
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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.
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The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
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There's parts of me I don't understand, he said, and shrugged.
