Rick Mercer Quotes

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

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• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Better
  • Spring

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Memory

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Question

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Movie

• The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Charity

• I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Look
  • Walk
  • View

• By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Country
  • Better
  • Broken

• 'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Live
  • She
  • Die

• She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • She
  • Daily

• The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

  

  Larry Wall
  • History

• This is the only thing I know.

  

  Eminem
  • Know
  • Thing

• Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.

  

  Bruce Lee

• It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

  

  Bill Frist
  • America
  • Moving

• Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Women
  • Dignity
  • Vanity

• The longest day must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Moments

• Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked.And death was observed with sudden cries,And birth with laughter and pain.And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skiesAnd night came down again.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Death
  • Night
  • Pain

• The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net.

  

  Marcel Dionne
  • Night
  • Strong

• I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Night
  • Shows
  • Tomorrow