Eric A. Meyer Quotes
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
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Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
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You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.
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Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
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Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
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Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
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I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.
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It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.
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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
