Rick Mercer Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
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I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.
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Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
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I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.
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I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
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I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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Cast in this unlikely roleIll-equipped to actWith insufficient tactOne must put up barriersTo keep oneself intact - Limelight (1981)
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The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
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I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.
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I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.
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I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.
