Gary Hirshberg Quotes
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I got a big mouth.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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I am a normal guy.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
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I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
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I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.
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Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
