Red Gerard (Redmond Gerard) Quotes
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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What matters most is the win.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that's what I plan on doing with all mine. They're not necessarily my secrets to tell. I'm the gatekeeper of other people's secrets.
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Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I've got my bag of goodies; I've got flaws coming out of every pore, but that's part of who I am. A bit of the process of life is learning to live with those things and accept yourself regardless. Maybe try to become a better person, either because of - or in spite of - those things.
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I try to have as much fun as I can, and I travel around the world doing what I love.
