Jerry Gillies Quotes
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.
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People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
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On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
