Paul J. Meyer Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
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In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
