Victor Mercer Quotes
You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.
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The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.
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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
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I am not the ruler of Gujarat, I'm a servant of Gujarat. The environment in which I grew up, sewa is treated as a dharma, not power.
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Cause you can be quick, jump the candlestick, burn your back, and fuck Jill on a hill, but you still ain't jack.
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I wish everybody was as nice as I am.
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When I thought I was dying in rehab in 1994, 'I Won't back Down' was my mantra. It lifted my up out of the pain and made me fight through it. 'The Waiting'... summed up my life. We can't stand waiting, we rock 'n' roll men and women. Tom Petty's songs are like a great book that you revisit when you need help. His songs make me better.
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When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
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We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.
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My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
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We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.
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Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.
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'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
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The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.
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In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.
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I have been able to sniff out a phony.
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I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'
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I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.
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One of the reasons 'Boogie Nights' is one of my favorite movies is because it's about people in this gross industry, but they actually treat each other kind of like family. And at the end of the day, they're really kind to each other, and I feel like that is what we have.
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I have repeated my opinion on natural gas more than once. It is unacceptable for a transitional economy to sell gas to its people and industrial enterprises for lower prices than in neighboring Russia, which is basically the largest gas producer.
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Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
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You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
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I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.
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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
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You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.
