James Mercer Quotes

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

James Mercer

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LovePerspectiveWorldYouPowerful

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

Jim Barksdale

JumpLivingCompanyOwnTakeProof

I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

John Krasinski

MeSmallFindDownGoCompany

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Robert Gottlieb

ArtStartNothingKnowingOutLike

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.

Michael D. Higgins

DirectionConnectionCountryRunWay

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Merle Shain

Ten YearsMoreDaysContentmentTen

The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.

Robert Burns

HeartMenSacrificeJoyManners

I know, for some people, 2016 was entirely miserable. And I'm like, 'Does it have to end?' Because over here in the Liefeld corner, it's been phenomenal.

Rob Liefeld

PeopleEndKnowSome PeopleOver

Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.

Martin O'Malley

MarriageEqualityBelieveAmerican

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Mira Nair

WillTellOwnStoriesOurElse

I look at a show like 'Roseanne.' That's super influential on me. It's very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don't know if you see that all the time in the network world.

Jonathan Krisel

FunnyTimeMeInfluenceWorldLook

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Conan O'Brien

LifeFunnyPeopleRestYouSay

I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.

Clive Davis

BelieveCareerKnowImportantWill

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