Victor Mercer Quotes

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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.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Belief
  • Hug
  • Tongue

• 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.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Dad
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Power
  • Environment

• Cause you can be quick, jump the candlestick, burn your back, and fuck Jill on a hill, but you still ain't jack.

  

  Eminem
  • Jump

• I wish everybody was as nice as I am.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Nice
  • Wish

• 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.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Depression

• We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.

  

  James Lassiter
  • People
  • World

• My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • World
  • Hockey

• We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.

  

  Charles Best

• 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.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • Motivational

• 'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • Great

• The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• 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.

  

  Efua Dorkenoo
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• I have been able to sniff out a phony.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge

• I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Boy

• I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • People
  • Family

• 'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Movie
  • You
  • Best

• I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying to you, ‘I’m going to drive my car off a cliff. Should I or should I not wear a seatbelt?’ And you say, ‘I don’t think you should drive your car off the cliff.’ And they say, ‘No, no, that bit’s already been decided—the question is whether to wear a seatbelt.’ And you say, ‘Well, you might as well wear a seatbelt.’ And then they say, ‘We’ve consulted with policy expert Rory Stewart and he says . . . .’

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Car
  • Should
  • Might

• I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Tomorrow

• Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Attitude

• You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

  

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