Larry Merchant Quotes
Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I love my sleep.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
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A great deal of her obscurity and cant, Tenar had begun to realize, was mere ineptness with words and ideas. Nobody had ever taught her to think consecutively. Nobody had ever listened to what she said. All that was expected, all that was wanted of her was muddle, mystery, mumbling. She was a witchwoman. She had nothing to do with clear meaning.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.
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We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
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Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
