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
  • Tongue
  • Hug

• 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

• I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • South Africa

• '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

• With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

  

  William Morris
  • World
  • Men
  • Blessed

• 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.

  

  Ed Eyestone
  • Fall
  • Face
  • Feels Like

• And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Fall
  • Wonder
  • Found

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

  

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