James Mercer Quotes

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
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• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
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• Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• The good ideas will survive.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
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• For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
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• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

  

  Adam Osborne
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• Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

  

  Bruce Lee
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• I've seen many of those brand collaborations where, basically, the only point is sticking on a Gucci sticker. That degrades good brands.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
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• I saw the Vibe article, but I don't really comment on that because I know it's not true.

  

  Aaliyah
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• When someone recognises you or wants an interview, you think, 'You know, maybe I've done something good. Maybe I have a good result.' So if you see it in that way, it becomes a lot easier, and you realise that, actually, you're there and you've succeeded because of the media, because if it wasn't for them, no one in the world would know us.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
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• Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
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