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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Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.
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I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.
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My grandad and mom would drive me to training all the time, and from then - around seven to eight - coaches were telling me I had something special and needed to stick with it.
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A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.
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The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have.
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Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.
