James Mercer Quotes

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

James Mercer

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At times, I find a degree of inflexibility in the more traditional homosexual community that seems to me to be every bit as 'straight' as straight.

Jen Sincero

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I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

Stephen Pagliuca

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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Truman Capote

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Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge.

Trevor Paglen

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'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.

Tom Reiss

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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

Tom Waits

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In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

Lorene Scafaria

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I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Joseph Bruchac

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I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.

Domo Genesis

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Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.

Austan Goolsbee

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I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

William Safire

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