David Mermin Quotes
I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.
Quotes to Explore
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I am not honest.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
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I'm really funny now.
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'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
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If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
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The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
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As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
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I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.
