Alan Bersin Quotes

If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

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• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Judge
  • Start
  • Election

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Time
  • Innovation

• I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • She
  • Want
  • Me

• I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Think
  • Start
  • Pressure

• Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Love
  • Jesus

• I'm very lucky.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Lucky
  • Very

• I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Guitarist
  • Amateur

• People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Effort
  • Choose

• Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • See
  • Perception
  • Computers

• Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • American
  • Society

• Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Small
  • Grow

• Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope

• News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mind
  • American
  • Chance

• From time to time, you will hear our opponents declare that the union is weak, that the union has no support, that the union has not grown fast enough. Our obituary has been written many times. How ironic it is that the same forces that argue so passionately that the union is not influential are the same forces that continue to fight us so hard.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Time
  • Support
  • Ironic

• I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Celebrity

• The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like 'Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?' With 'Constantine,' too, they really trust me to scare the audience.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Game

• If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Wall
  • Feet
  • Ladders