Larry Merchant Quotes
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.
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There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.
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I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
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Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
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Within three hundred years Jesus went from being a Jewish apocalyptic prophet to being God himself, a member of the Trinity. Early Christianity is nothing if not remarkable. HEAVEN
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My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.
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The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
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It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.
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If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass
