James Mercer Quotes
There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
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Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.
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Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
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I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.
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I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just...you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
