"I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school, you're sort of forced into the normal world, where you're competing with the football players, just kind of in that world where somebody like me didn't quite fit in."

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Source : "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

James Mercer

#Girl Quotes #Football Quotes #School Quotes

“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”

Source : "The Black Prism". Book by Brent Weeks, August 25, 2010.
“What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.”
“One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.”

Source : "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.
“I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.”

Source : "LeRoy Neiman dies aged 91", www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.
“It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.”
“We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.”
“My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.”
“The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.”

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