James Mercer Quotes
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow.
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I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
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I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.
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Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
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Only you can allow yourself to be angry.
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Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
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Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.
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Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.
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All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
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Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.
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I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.
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Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.
