Mercer Reynolds Quotes
That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.
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It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.
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Jeb Bush has been labeled 'low energy,' and he will be so for the rest of his life, because Mr. Trump labeled him that way. He's a master brander. Marco Rubio is going to be 'Little Marco' forever. Ted Cruz is 'Lyin' Ted,' because that's what people understand.
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If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
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I was at the birth of my two girls.
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I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.
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I was definitely a late bloomer.
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
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I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.
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Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required.
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The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
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That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.
