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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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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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 think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
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Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.
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We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
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My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.
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Keep the faith, keep the faith, keep working.
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Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
