Red Gerard (Redmond Gerard) Quotes
I'm really inspired by my friends. I'm psyched to ride with them, usually, and they're really fun to hang out with.
Quotes to Explore
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I will keep working hard!
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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In Colombia, we have a lot of passion.
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Carey Mercer
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Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I'm really inspired by my friends. I'm psyched to ride with them, usually, and they're really fun to hang out with.
