James Mercer Quotes
The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.
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When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
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The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.
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The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.
