Alan Bersin Quotes

Alan Bersin

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• Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Opportunity
  • Growing

• Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • You
  • Say
  • Rather

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Up
  • Money
  • Management

• I write a world where everyone is partly right.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Everyone
  • Where

• My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Projects

• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Self
  • Anything
  • Serve

• I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • World
  • Great
  • Know

• It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • More
  • Mediocre
  • Magnificent

• All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Business
  • Design

• As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mother
  • Feel
  • Better

• I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Serious

• The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Bad

• In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • American

• There's a lot of little 'Bonnie-isms' in 'Teenage Dream' that I was hoping to keep for myself.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Dream

• I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Thinking

• Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.

  

  John O. Brennan

• I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Ridiculous
  • Hates
  • Psychiatrist

• The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not kill radio, movies did not kill theatre, and home videos did not kill movie theaters, although all these things were falsely predicted.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Home
  • Movie
  • Theatre

• Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Dance
  • Fate

• In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Life
  • Death
  • Culture

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