Larry Merchant Quotes
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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.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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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.
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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.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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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.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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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.
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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.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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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.
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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.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.
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I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.
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In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
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Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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The Super Bowl is like Christmas shopping at Macy's for bookies.
