Stephen Merchant (Stephen James Merchant) Quotes
Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.
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To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.
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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
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This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.
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I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.
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Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.
