Jeff Merkley Quotes
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'
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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
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On bad days, I like to wear something colourful so I strike attention. That's how I appear confident to others - and how I get confident.
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Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10.
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A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.
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Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.
