Philipp Meyer Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.
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Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
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The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.
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Whenever I'm interested in something, I make sure I'm really good at it.
