Daphne Merkin Quotes
I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have some core that withstands the ravages? Everyone gets pulled down in life and has good moments. But it always interests me how people withstand things.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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I believe that change keeps you young.
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There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
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Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.
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Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
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In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
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I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have some core that withstands the ravages? Everyone gets pulled down in life and has good moments. But it always interests me how people withstand things.
