James Mercer Quotes
My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.James Mercer Broken Bells
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
Katee Sackhoff -
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen -
I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
Fairuza Balk -
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
Joanne Rowling -
I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne -
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
J. B. Smoove
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater -
We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
Laura Esquivel -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
Adam D'Angelo -
Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
Jackie Chan
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
Aaron Patzer -
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
Camille Paglia -
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Ralph Ellison -
I think music sharing of any kind is great.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton
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You can do more, you can always do more.
Dan Marino -
A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
Orlando Bloom -
I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
Gary Hume -
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
Jonathan Zittrain -
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.
Terrence McNally -
My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.
James Mercer Broken Bells