Gerald McRaney (Gerald Lee McRaney) Quotes

Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

Gerald McRaney

• To Be
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• Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

  

  Major Owens
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Tools

• I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Listen
  • Open-minded

• In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Mind

• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  

  Ben Harper
  • American
  • Discover
  • American Music

• When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Competition

• When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Country
  • Guy
  • House

• Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Lose
  • Gain

• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Pride
  • Results
  • Achieved

• It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Humanity
  • Touch
  • Sweetness

• Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Love
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Arts
  • Bottom Line

• The internet is just a passing fad.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Internet

• I never thought of doing anything but comics, except maybe being a pilot.

  

  Ernie Colon
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • To Be

• Each of us has the power to be Superman and to help rid the world of its worst evils-poverty, loneliness, and exploitation.

  

  Craig Kielburger
  • Worst
  • To Be
  • Superman

• I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Hate
  • Racist

• Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

  

  Gerald McRaney
  • To Be
  • Smoke
  • Dumbass