Erik Hersman Quotes

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

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• Never judge a person if you don't know him.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Know
  • Judge

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Born

• A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Win

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Piano

• Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dream

• I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Feeling
  • Proud
  • Chinese

• I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Politics
  • Better
  • Indians

• I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Hope
  • Skill

• I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Words

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Today
  • Simple

• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Learning

• You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.

  

  David Chang
  • People

• People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wish

• I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Leader
  • Disney
  • Commercial

• If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

  

  Erik Hersman
  • People
  • Together
  • Happen