Victor Mercer Quotes
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	Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.   
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	I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.   
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	But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.   
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	For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.   
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	Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.   
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	My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.   
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	When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.   
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	But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.   
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	We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.   
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	Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.   
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	Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.   
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	The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?   
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	I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.   
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	You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.   
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	In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.   
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	I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.   
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	The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.   
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	My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.   
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	Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'   
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	I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.   
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	All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.   
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	Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.   
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	The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.   
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	Kill an unborn baby and you still couldn't de-fetus.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					