Ralph Merkle Quotes
There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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In the end there is only Matisse.
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.
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I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
