Michael Gerber Quotes
If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
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As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!
