Larry Merchant Quotes

The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.

Larry Merchant

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Think
  • Pay
  • While

• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Power
  • Community
  • Team

• As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Up
  • Trying
  • New

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Together
  • Space

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Real
  • Action
  • Value

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Time
  • Red
  • First

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Idea
  • Successful
  • Ability

• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Business
  • Me
  • Ideology

• I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • People
  • Long

• I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

  

  Matt Mickiewicz
  • Design

• I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Career
  • Taken
  • Enough

• The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

  

  Phil Mickelson
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Professional

• Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Christmas
  • Shopping
  • Super Bowl