James Mercer Quotes

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

James Mercer

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I would love to play the villain, but again, it's sort of what happens in this industry.

Joe Morton

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Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.

Jodi Kantor

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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

John Abercrombie

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To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

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This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.

Robert Shea

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Washington is a very complicated city. You have to work the personal relationships. They are politicians, they are congressmen, they are senators, but they are human beings. And for them to get to know you on a personal level really, really makes the difference.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

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I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it.

Amanda Latona

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The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.

Donald McCaig

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The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher McCandless

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What I read, I read thoroughly and retain almost all of it.

Philip Schultz

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