Johnny Mercer Quotes
My publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
Owain Yeoman
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
Wayne Rogers
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
Wayne Gretzky
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Walter Kirn
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
Kate McKinnon
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
Kate Thompson
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
Naveen Jain
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We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
Dan Hawkins
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
P. J. O'Rourke
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
Maggie Grace
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
Laura Robson
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But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
Christopher Nolan
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God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
Oswald Chambers
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I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
Chris O'Donnell
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
Dan Pfeiffer
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My publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'
Johnny Mercer