Michael Gerber Quotes
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
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I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
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Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.
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We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their failure to produce 100 percent proficiency, or demanding that teachers be knowledgeable in the subjects they teach. Instead, we must allow teachers and students to interact as whole persons, and we must develop policies that treat the school as a whole community.
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
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We both spend our money on things that break too easily like⦠people.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.