Andrew Mehrtens Quotes
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
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there is no noise louder than a silent phone.
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Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one
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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.
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Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.
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Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
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History is not what happened but what is written down
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Principles are what people have instead of God.
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We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a “stab in the back”—but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing.
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I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
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Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.
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After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
