James Mercer Quotes

Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

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• I am who I am.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Person

• Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Different
  • Single

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Learn

• On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.

  

  Yang Lan
  • World
  • Art
  • Business

• Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Thought

• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • You
  • Mistake

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Always

• I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Speak

• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Greatness
  • Her

• At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • English
  • Moment

• Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Difference

• I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Land
  • Village
  • Ruthless

• No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Doing
  • New
  • New York

• A crowd of persons came in as soon as my office was opened. Among them were several ladies who called to pay their respects. None who called had any business of more importance than an ardent desire to serve their country, provided they could be appointed to a good office. As I has none of these to dispose of, they were, of course, disappointed.

  

  James K. Polk
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• Rosemary Clooney took all of us on the road. We were the first American idols.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • American
  • Road
  • Idols

• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  

  Jerry Weller

• When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Rosie Perez is the coolest. She's kind of everything you want her to be. She's involved in so many cool things, political charities and stuff.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • She
  • Political
  • Cool

• Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Cool
  • Addiction