Philipp Meyer Quotes
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.
