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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I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.
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I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?
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Three hours for an average game is not good for baseball.
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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.
