Jerry Greenfield Quotes
We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken.
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Obviously, it's not a performance that we're proud of. But nobody's going in the tank, or giving up. We're going to come out next week and have a lot of our problems fixed.
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There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
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She was a counselor, a therapist, a beautiful woman. He was nothing. That’s what he was.
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We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
