Michael Gerber Quotes
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My worst expectations never happened.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
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As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience.
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One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
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I used to respect the United States and the American dream. Now I consider the United States the biggest threat to Internet freedom and peace in the world.
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As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'
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The way the press works, people don't like to review or talk about EPs. It's considered, 'Why don't you just wait for the record?' But for someone who's creating, and the audience, they can get material quicker. I almost feel like putting out a few songs every couple months might be better than putting out an album every year or two.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Systems run the business and people run the systems.
