James Mercer Quotes
I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Love is a state of being.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
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Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.
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I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.
