Gerald Kaufman Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.
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Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life.
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Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.
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The legacy of the great monotheistic religions is the expectation of a single over-arching explanation for the Universe. ...There is no logical reason why the Universe should not contain surds of arbitrary elements that do not relate to the rest.
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The longest suicide note in history.
