Bob Merrill Quotes
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
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They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.
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I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
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Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.
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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.
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It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion.
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Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
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When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.
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I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.
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For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.
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It's not going to affect us much at all.
