Rick Mercer Quotes
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
Colson Whitehead -
My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
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The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
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The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
