Gerald May Quotes
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Woman are complex creatures.
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Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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Pretty witty Nell.
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Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
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She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
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As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.
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You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
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I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.
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Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
