James Mercer Quotes
We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
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The most valuable thing that anyone will ever give you is their time. Not their money. Remember that.
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
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I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
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We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.
