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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The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.
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There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
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The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
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I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
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Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
