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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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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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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Helping the poor doesn't mean redistributing the wealth. It means removing the breaks that give the wealthy an advantage so huge that big chunks of the nation's income are automatically removed from individual economic competition.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
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Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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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.
