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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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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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.
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I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.
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In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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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.
