Johnny Mercer Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I often reread books I have written.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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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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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
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I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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I remember too, a distant bell...and stars that fell...like the rainout of the blue.
