Philipp Meyer Quotes
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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From the haunts of daily life Where is waged the daily strife With common wants and common cares Which sows the human heart with tares.
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.
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If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.
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The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.
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I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.
