"Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave……" — James Mercer
"Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it."
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22 Quotes by James Mercer
James Mercer has 22 quotes on this site.
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort…
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I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me,…
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There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You…
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I was really shy as a kid.
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I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big…
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My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear…
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I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more…
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I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a…
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Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you…
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So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only,…
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I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful…
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When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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