James Mercer Quotes
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
Tamara Tunie
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
Jacki Weaver
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
Flume
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
Patina Miller
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
Kate Hudson
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
J. R. Smith
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
Jack Markell
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
Octavia E. Butler
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison Keillor
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
Safra A. Catz
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
Carles Puigdemont
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Ivanka Trump's declared mission to 'empower women who work' is a welcome element in the Trump administration. As a woman with a desk in the White House and the founder of an international corporation, she is certainly in a position to improve the wages, safety, and quality of life of working women around the world.
Jan Schakowsky
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To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
Pankaj Mishra
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When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
Jose Andres
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I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.
Blake Lively
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I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
