Rick Mercer Quotes

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

Rick Mercer

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• I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rules

• Bad things happen sometimes.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Happen

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Sometimes
  • I Can
  • Journalist

• It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Country
  • Real
  • Sometimes

• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • Model

• Sometimes I draw blanks.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Sometimes
  • Draw
  • Blanks

• Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Time
  • Political
  • Sometimes

• If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I think you gotta have balls to be an Avenged fan sometimes. A lot of our fans get hated on just as much as us. To me Avenged fans aren't just fans of a band, they are fans of everything that surrounds it, like a life style. We live it, you live it. You go to the shows and you can feel it. It's a great experience and people that aren't involved will never understand. So they can stand on the side lines and talk, but we will continue to do just what makes us happy.

  

  Matthew Charles Sanders Avenged Sevenfold
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Style

• I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Always
  • Golf
  • Golfer

• Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Responsibility

• The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Sometimes
  • Trading
  • Allies