James Mercer Quotes
As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
Dan Phillips
I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
Raekwon
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
Queen Rania of Jordan
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Lane Evans
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe
If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
Ted Cruz
No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Nancy Johnson
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe
There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
Pam Bondi
When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
Oliver Sim
The xx
When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
Olivia Newton-John
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
Warren Beatty
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
Tara Strong
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
Pardis Sabeti
Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
Warren Farrell
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Camille Paglia
My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.
Prince Royce
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
Bruce Sterling
Craig Ferguson: Do you do therapy?Hugh Laurie: I see a gentleman once a week.Craig Ferguson: I love it, I'm a great convert.Hugh Laurie: Therapy?Craig Ferguson: No, just seeing a gentleman once a week.
Craig Ferguson
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
Katherine Jenkins
As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
