James Mercer Quotes
I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.
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Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.
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I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.
